The Administration for Native Americans Language Preservation and Maintenance grants program has awarded Cultural Survival $80,000 annually for a three-year period to support master-apprentice speaker training at the Sauk Language Department of the Sac and Fox Nation in Stroud, Oklahoma.
Fred Nahwooksy (Comanche), a national leader in the movement to save endangered Native American languages died suddenly on Friday October 2nd in Johnson City, Tennessee. [link to obiturary]
Thanks in part to Cultural Survival's efforts, both appropriations committees of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have recommended a fourfold increase for endangered Native American languages funding.
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
The National Native Language Revitalization Summit that Cultural Survival co-organized this May was by almost any measure, a great success. Nearly 300 people from across Indian Country gathered for three days of eduction, advocacy, and celebration. Read more.
Cultural Survival and the National Alliance to Save Native Languages are facilitating the National Native Language Revitalization Summit in Washington D.C. this May 11th-13th.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
