Cultural Survival's Native Language Revitalization Campaign recently traveled to Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Washington, D.C., to promote its partners' and advisors’ work to revitalize critically endangered Native languages (those with small speaker populations ranging from 5 to 150) and to expand CS’ outreach in Indian Country. Nearly 500 new language advocates have been added to the campaign’s network of partners in the past month.
CS co-facilitated the National Indian Education Association’s October 22-24 Native Language Summit in Milwaukee with the Indigenous Language Institute and the National Alliance to Save Native Languages, and presented CS’ work at Tusweca Tiospaye’s Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Language Summit November 12-14 in the Black Hills. CS also promoted grassroots language program priorities—creating new speakers and directing resources to local efforts—at the Smithsonian Institution’s recent three-day consultation on its Recovering Voices initiative hosted by the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American, and the National Anthropological Archives.
