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| Title | News Article: Stabilizing Indigenous Languages |
| Body | From http://www.indiancountrynews.com/fullstory.cfm?ID=449 Stabilizing Indigenous Language Symposium - Discovering what to do, and how to save our languages by Christine Graef Words from a long time ago are coming back, carried on a river flowing around government efforts to extinguish language, past state policy uninclusive of funding, soothing anxiety amid elders who remember and rippling toward the next generations who more and more are echoing the sounds once nearly silenced across the lands. “Before, we saw linguists, one right after another, talking to us about our language,” said Gerald Hill, Oneida, Bear Clan, former chief counsel for the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. “Now, it’s evolved into us being the activists. Before, people talked about it and didn’t know what to do. Now, talk is about how to do it, what the resources are, what works and what doesn’t. We have technology. We’ve found how to avoid politics. Now, it’s more of a discovery of what can be done and how it can be done.” Hill was one of many speakers from around the world who came together to share at the recent Buffalo School State College 13th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Language Symposium, hosted by the School of Education and co-sponsored by the Seneca Nation of Indians. Read the entire article at http://www.indiancountrynews.com/fullstory.cfm?ID=449 . |
| Source | Indian Country Today |
| Inputdate | 2007-06-03 08:46:37 |
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