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Celebrate Native American Languages: OurMotherTongues.org Launches

Date: 11/07/2011

VISIT OURMOTHERTOUNGES.ORG
Cultural Survival's Endangered Languages Program invites you to explore American Indian language revitalization efforts nationwide in preparation for the November 17 national broadcast of the triumphant story of the reawakening and return home of the Wampanoag language. We Still Live Here - Ās Nutayuneān, starring the Wōpanāak Language Reclamation Project, airing nationally on PBS's Independent Lens series,

Cultural Survival Board Member Honored with First Peoples Fund’s Community Spirit Award

Date: 09/11/2010

This year the Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Award was awarded to Cultural Survival board member, Ramona Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag) for her commitment to sustaining the cultural values of her people by the First Peoples Fund. Ramona works with clay and other natural materials making ceramic vessels.

We Still Live Here Winter 2012 screenings

Date: 01/12/2012
We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân, Anne Makepeace's award-winning documentary about the reawakening of the Wampanoag language in southeastern Massachusetts, continues to engage and move diverse audiences, while bringing hope and inspiration to Indigenous communities struggling with language loss and the challenges of revitalization.  The film was produced in collaboration with Cultural Survival's Endangered Languages Program as an education tool about Indigenous language reclamation and revitalization, and to benefit the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. 
 
Tsi-Akim Maidu Tribe

Visit OurMotherTongues.org

Date: 01/12/2012

Noted in the top spot of last week's Scout Report, a publication of The Internet Scout Project, based at the University of Wisconsin, Our Mother Tongues was highlighted as a Research and Education site where visitors can learn "the ways in which Native American languages have recovered and thrived in recent times."  On Our Mother Tongues you will meet speakers, teachers, students, and re

Congress Ends Term with Promises Broken

Date: 01/10/2012

With the 2011 elections over, Guatemala's new President and Congress will take office this weekend on January 14th. The term in office ends after four years of promises that never amounted to the passage of the community radio bill 4087. An editorial published in Guatemala's most respected newspaper, El Periodico, highlights Congress' failure to pass the bill as well as the general disregard for the needs and concerns of Indigenous Peoples, due to what he calls a lack of political will.  The bill 4087, to legalize community radio, will remain active in the next term of congress, awaiting debate in plenary session.

See a full translation of the Periodico artice, below. 

 

The House of Wisdom: Ecuador’s Intercultural University and Its Challenges

Date: 12/12/2011

By Dr. Skye Stephenson

The Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador, who comprise fourteen nationalities and eighteen pueblos, have been at the forefront of many key human rights struggles in recent decades that have had an impact far beyond their own nation. A key goal of their united Indigenous movement has been the establishment of an intercultural university.  After many years of development, the Universidad Intercultural Amawtay Wasi “the House of Wisdom” (UIAW) was launched five years ago receiving accreditation for its unique education offerings based upon Andean ancestral knowledge.  Now, the Ecuadorian government is threatening to withdraw that accreditation and potentially close down the university.

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