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.
Leadership from three Cherokee nations came together last week to mark the opening of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Kituwah Academy, a language immersion school for preschool through fifth grade students located in Cherokee, North Carolina.
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.
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.
