tizhaméh Leslie,<div>this sounds really excellent.</div><div>We've all been hearing the death nell bell about languages disappearing daily</div><div>but hopefully these kind of lecturers and writers can put in clear words for the rest of the world why this preoccupation with our languages isn't some sort of infatuation or romance with the past but at its core is really about the future and survival.</div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Leslie Saxon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saxon@uvic.ca">saxon@uvic.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Wade Davis will be speaking on 'why ancient knowledge matters in the modern world' and publishing a book called 'The Wayfinders'. His tour and the book are part of the CBC Massey Lectures series. The lectures will be broadcast on the Ideas program (CBC) on 2-6 November 2009.<br>
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Here is a quote from the CBC publicity:<br>
"In <i>The Wayfinders</i>, <b>Wade Davis</b> offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind’s survival should they disappear."<br>
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey.html" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey.html</a><br>
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Department of Linguistics<br>
University of Victoria<br>
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Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization<br>
<a href="http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr/" target="_blank">http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr/</a><br>
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