<div class="cheaderinline">Educators and Scholars Come Together to
Examine and Improve Language Preservation</div>
<div class="date"><br>June 16th, 2010 - Posted by Abby Mogollón<br>USA<br></div>
<p>Around the world, educators and scholars are coming together
throughout the summer at special conferences and institutes to explore
new ways to protect, maintain, and transmit Indigenous languages.</p>During the past two weeks participants at the <a href="http://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eaildi/" target="_blank">American
Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)</a>, held in Tucson,
Arizona, have been investigating ways to use technology to advance their
work. “During AILDI each summer, Indigenous language warriors from all
over gather to learn, share, and prepare to fight to keep our Indigenous
languages alive,” says AILDI faculty member Stacey Oberly, a member of
the Southern Ute tribe working on native language revitalization.<p>Access full article below:</p><p><a href="http://firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=998">http://firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=998</a><br></p>