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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.
It appears that the White House Tribal Nations Conference held on November 5th, 2009 will be the first of many such meetings. President Barack Obama has now signed a presidential memorandum establishing “regular and meaningful consultation and collaboration” between tribal nations and the federal government.
The Cape Wind project, which would place 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts, was put on hold in October when the Wampanoag Nation objected to the project, saying that their spiritual ceremonies require an unobstructed view of the sunrise. They also are objecting because they say the shoals on which the turbines would be built is a Wamapanoag burial ground.
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.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.