<div><br></div><div>I know what you mean Paula,</div>which of course they should support,once one realizes their ancestors grave "sins"<div>against indigenous first nations people. Some are sincerely wanting to make up for that.<br>
but i find something else at work too...</div><div>White educated scholars wanting to correct,lecture and teach us our own cultural perspectives</div><div><div class="gmail_quote">and this i find a more ironic (and even annoying).</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">We have experienced this with visiting white professors who "know more" than we do</div><div class="gmail_quote">almost like "ok, listen up... we messed you up , now we are going to rebuild you."</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">I don't know, but some of that still feels to me </div><div class="gmail_quote">like it leaks from residual slime of the ol' colonialistic urge.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
I appreciate it when people express themselves on this forum.</div><div class="gmail_quote">ske:noh</div><div class="gmail_quote">Richard</div><div class="gmail_quote">Wyandotte Oklahoma</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Paula Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmeyer8@cox.net">pmeyer8@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div><font face="Arial">It is interesting (again) when the colonizers support the
revitalization of the languages that they so effectively brought to the "last
vestiges."</font></div>
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<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [ILAT] Saving indigenous
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<p>FYI, from the TK Bulletin blog at <a href="http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/this-week-in-review-saving-indigenous-languages-in-australia/" target="_blank">http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/this-week-in-review-saving-indigenous-languages-in-australia/</a></p>
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<p>This week in review… Saving indigenous languages in
Australia</p>
<p>Posted by Kirsty under Indigenous and local communities,
Language, News alerts, Traditional knowledge</p>
<p>11 August 2009</p>
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<p>$9.3m to save indigenous languages</p>
<p>The Age [Australia], 9 August 2009</p>
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<p>CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA: The Australian federal government has
pledged $9.3 million over the coming year to help take 113 indigenous
languages off the critically endangered list. Of the 145 indigenous dialects
spoken in Australia, 110 are at risk of being lost, a 2005 report found. But
under the government’s national indigenous languages policy, there will be an
increased focus on protecting the last vestiges of indigenous language. The
policy will also encourage the teaching of indigenous languages in schools,
although it is understood not to alter the course in the Northern Territory,
where bilingual education is set to be scrapped in 2010. Read the article…
<a href="http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/93m-to-save-indigenous-languages-20090809-edza.html" target="_blank">http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/93m-to-save-indigenous-languages-20090809-edza.html</a></p>
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