Cultural Survival partners at the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma are taking their master-apprentice team on an immersion field trip to the Inter-tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes’ 2nd Annual Language Summit to be held at Bacone College in Muskogee, OK, May 21-22. Team members will have the chance to practice real-world conversations about their travel experiences and the conference presentations’ applicability to their own community-based language revitalization work. Conference sessions will explore tribal-university partnerships, teaching Native lang
Cultural Survival board of directors vice-chair Richard Grounds, director of the Euchee Language Project based in Sapulpa, OK, last month traveled to Los Angeles with executive director Ellen Lutz and a coalition of Indigenous rights organizations to meet with Avatar director James Cameron about the real-life Pandoras facing the world’s 370 million Indigenous Peoples.
Cultural Survival took part in a hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy. The Indigenous speakers in the April 29 hearing explained how U.S. foreign policy is affecting their communities, often in dramatic and disastrous ways.
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