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After a week of marches and road blockades, Ecuador's national indigenous movement and the government of President Rafael Correa have initiated talks.

On Monday afternoon, a delegation of about 150 representatives from the three regional organizations of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) attended a meeting with the President and his cabinet in Quito.

Cultural Survival will attend the grand opening of the Eastern Band of Cherokee's language immersion school, New Kituwah Academy, on October 7 near Cherokee, North Carolina. New Kituwah Academy will house Cherokee language preschool and kindergarten classrooms, serving 2 - 5 year olds. The students, who already speak English as their first language, will study English as a discrete subject area, but will be taught all other curriculum content in Cherokee. Eastern Cherokee is an endangered language, with 300 remaining speakers, most over age 50.

Summer is a great time for grants and fundraising research and planning!  Our Native Language Revitalization Campaign works closely with our partners supporting grantwriting activities which strengthen local community efforts to create new fluent speakers of Indigenous languages.  Major federal funding

Working with top officials at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), members of Congress, and leading Washington DC-based tribal advocacy groups, Cultural Survival's endangered language campaign director Ryan Wilson has been pushing for $5 million in federal funds for "shovel-ready" projects to support repairs and renovations at American Indian language immersion schools throughout the U.S. Watch for more news next week as the economic stimulus package moves through Congress to President Obama.

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