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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Oh yes, Richard. Colonialism is still with us alive
and well and widespread, just sometimes disguised.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Paula</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rzs@WILDBLUE.NET href="mailto:rzs@WILDBLUE.NET">Richard Zane
Smith</A> </DIV>
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href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ILAT] Saving indigenous
languages in Australia</DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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><FONT face=Arial>Paula</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=dzo@BISHARAT.NET href="mailto:dzo@BISHARAT.NET" target=_blank>Don
Osborn</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU"
target=_blank>ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:58
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [ILAT] Saving indigenous
languages in Australia</DIV>
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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></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>