The second annual national conference of community radio stations was held in Guatemala on October 10^th-12^th with the participation of over 30 community radio stations from around the country. The conference aimed to strengthen the identity of the movement of community radio stations in Guatemala as agents of social change in the face of an increasingly oppressive political regime.

On October 6th and 7th, three volunteers from the community radio station Radio La Voz de Palestina, of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala travelled 30 minutes down the winding highway to the town of San José Caben in San Marcos, Guatemala to visit the community radio station La Radio San José. Accompanied by CS staff, the two radio stations were participating in an exchange ideas, best practices, and community activism.

The Makepeace Productions documentary WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân, produced with the assistance of Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Program, travelled this month to a series of ten workshops in Bosnia and Herzegovina with director Anne Makepeace as part of the U.S. Department of State’s American Film Showcase program that hosts screenings and discussions at international embassies, universities, and diverse community organizations.

By Phoebe Farris

Christopher Columbus arrived as an immigrant to "the New World."

Seven co-sponsors in the U.S. House and Senate this month introduced reauthorizing legislation funding for The Esther Martinez Native American Language Act, first passed by Congress in 2006 and funded in 2008 through amendments to the Native American Programs Act of 1974 in order to provide support for Native language immersion and restoration programs in tribal communities.

This month WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân travels with director Anne Makepeace, to Sarajevo and four other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, taking the incredible story of Cultural Survival's Endangered Languages Program advisers at the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project (WLRP) to new audiences. The film will also screen on October 27 as part of the United Nations Film Festival at Stanford University.

This year’s call for grant proposals from the U.N. Trust Fund for the Second Decade highlights funding opportunities for “education (such as language revitalization)” for Indigenous organizations or organizations working for Indigenous peoples, noting that the “Trust Fund for the Second Decade was established to promote, support and implement the objectives of the Decade [for the World’s Indigenous People]” proclaimed by the U.N.

The community radio station Snuq' Jolom Konob' is located in the town of Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, nestled high in the Cuchumatan mountain range.   The station was founded 13 years ago, after the signing of the Peace Accords brought an end to the Armed Conflict in Guatemala and guaranteed Indigenous communities the right to their own forms of media.

During a busy summer that included film screenings, summer youth camp sponsorships, and funding two Sauk Language apprentices’ attendance at programs like the Canadian Indigenous Languages Literacy Development Institute at the University of Alberta, Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Program also collaborated in-house with the Community Radio Project to help the Smithsonian Recovering Voices initiative in hosting a conference for Indigenous language radio producers.

At the Euchee Language Project, a partner of Cultural Survival's Endangered Languages Program, second language learners and fluent elder speakers in Sapulpa, Oklahoma are already preparing to resume their fall afterschool programming, after a busy summer of field trips, a well-attended Euchee Knowledge Bowl competition, and daily activities at the Yuchi House, sponsored in part by the Endangered Languages Program.