It was late in the Cambodian afternoon as my Kuy colleagues, Mr. Pak and Mr. Vansakd, and I followed Mr.
Languages and Cultures
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Date: May 14, 2012
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Date: May 14, 2012
Aymara weaver Felicia Huarsaya Villasante comes from a small community in the Peruvian province of Azangaro about 15,815 feet above sea level near Lake Titicaca. In the 4,450 acre community, residents make their living in myriad ways. |
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Date: May 14, 2012
The town of Cajola lies in a valley surrounded by mountains in the highlands of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. |
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Date: May 10, 2012
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at the 11th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, Cultural Survival, |
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Date: April 26, 2012
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Date: April 26, 2012
More than 600 Native American youth from tribes across Oklahoma and beyond gathered this month at the University of Oklahoma’s Sam Noble Museum in Norman for their tenth annual two-day Youth Language Fair. |
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Date: April 25, 2012
In July and August 2012, Cultural Survival is joining forces with the Recovering Voices Initiative at the Smithsonian Institution to facilitate endangered language revitalization by producing a conference on radio programming in Indigenous languages. |
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Date: April 10, 2012
Languages have a history of being lost in the United States. Through the process of cultural assimilation, many immigrants settle here and lose linguistic ties to their home countries in a few generations. |
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Date: April 9, 2012
Terri M. Baker's (Choctaw) essay about memories and stories of her mother who in the 1920s attended an American Indian mission boarding school in Oklahoma. |
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Date: April 5, 2012
Among the Iñupiaq, subsistence techniques and livelihoods are not just “traditional relics” relegated to only a few members of the older generations and a dwindling practice. |
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Date: March 29, 2012
As a result of a more than a week of protests in Guatemala, the leaders of 11 different political parties in Congress signed res |
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Date: March 29, 2012
This past weekend Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Program Manager Jennifer Weston and Tracy Kelley, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project apprentice hosted a day-long workshop on Indigenous language revitalization projects with |
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Date: March 28, 2012
Get to know Community Radio in Guatemala by seeing what's on the walls of our pilot stations: |
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Date: March 13, 2012
By Natalia Cartney. Photos by Rodrigo Llauro. |
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Date: March 6, 2012
By Rob Percival |
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Date: February 28, 2012
A poem by Warajor Ojulu.
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Date: February 23, 2012
January 2012 marked four years since Cultural Survival launched Endangered Languages Program partnerships with critically endangered Native American language communities. |
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Date: February 23, 2012
Mapunzugun is a language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people. On February 21, 2012 in Temuco, the capital of Araucanía Region in Chile, several Mapuche organizations and communities organized a first regional march in support of the Mapunzugun language. |
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Date: February 21, 2012
February 21, 2012 is International Mother Language Day, or Mother Tongue Day, first observed by the international community in 2000 expressly to promote linguistic diversity and multilingualism—this year’s theme is “Mother tongue instru |
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Date: February 21, 2012
San Luis Jilotepeque is a town in the department of Jalapa, located on the southeast of Guatemala. |

























