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.