<br><span class="gmail_quote">Sorry for any cross-posts...<br></span><br>Seminole Language Revitalization 11/9<br><br>The following talk will be held as part of the provost's "Dialogues Across<br>Indian Country" and will take place at the University of Pennsylvania
<br>Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. For more details follow the link:<br><br><a href="http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/events/calitem.php?which=1127">http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/events/calitem.php?which=1127</a>
<br><br>Dialogues Across Indian Country : Saving Native American<br>Languages, For Whom?<br><br> Thu November 9, 4:30 pm<br><br>Richard Grounds (Yuchi/Seminole)<br><br>Project Director for the Euchee (Yuchi) Language Project based in Sapulpa,
<br>Oklahoma<br><br> After centuries of inestimable losses of land and resources, patterns of<br>physical genocide, legal attacks on ceremonial continuity, and assaults on<br>cultural vitality through assimilationist policies, Native nations are
<br>only now facing, perhaps, their greatest loss: the silencing of their<br>original languages. This presentation examines the nature of this<br>potential loss and clarifies strategies for revitalizing Native languages<br>
in relation to available financial, institutional, and cultural resources.<br>As the scholarly community awakens to the prospect of losing the essential<br>language connection to the ancient and rich worlds of Indigenous<br>
knowledge, the questions become: who will benefit from the efforts that<br>are being made to preserve Native languages, and are there effective<br>schemes of cooperation to overcome the political challenges in academia<br>
and within Indigenous communities?<br><br>----- End forwarded message -----<br><br><br>Cheryl Traiger<br>PhD Student - Second Language Acquisition and Teaching<br>CERCLL Graduate Associate<br>Graduate Research Associate - Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
<br>University of Arizona<br>Tucson, 85721 USA<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br><br>Associate Director, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)<br>Department of English (Primary)
<br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>Second Language Acquistion &Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)<br>Department of Language,Reading and Culture<br>Department of Linguistics<br>The Southwest Center (Research)
<br> Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836<br><br><br>"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities." <br> Wade
Davis...(on a Starbucks cup...)