[Athapbasckan-L] 2025 Dene Languages Conference

[Alessandro Jaker]

Mársı to everyone who replied so far.

Patrick: Thank you, this is exactly the information I was looking for.
Please look into it and let us know.

Gary: Yes, for sure we will need abstract reviewers, so I'll put you down
for that.

Lynda: Mársı for your enthusiasm, we also look forward to seeing you again
as well.

Have a great day,

Alex

On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 4:05 PM Moore, Patrick <Patrick.Moore at ubc.ca> wrote:

> Garry Oker from Doig River First Nation must have offered to host the Dene
> Languages Conference at the last one in 2019. I'll check with them to see
> if they would want to host that next year in Fort St John.
>
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> Pat Moore
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> iishuh Alex!
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> Thanks so much for prompting this long overdue discussion. Happy to help
> in any way I can.
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> Gary
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> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 9:42 AM Alessandro Jaker <amjaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dear Dene linguists and Dene friends,
>>
>> It has now been 5 years since we had a Dene languages conference. Perhaps
>> like many of you, I have been reluctant to ask about the next conference,
>> for fear that people would then ask me to organize it myself :) But at this
>> point I am willing to take that risk, since the Dene Languages Conference
>> is something which has always been very important to our community.
>>
>> First let's review where we left off. At the 2019 conference, we agreed
>> that the next conference (in 2020) would be hosted by the Kenaitze Indian
>> Tribe of Kenai, Alaska, and the following year (2021) would be hosted by a
>> First Nation in Northern BC. I do not remember the name of the specific
>> First Nation. Obviously, that didn't happen because of Covid 19. However, I
>> think those two communities should have first dibs on whether or not they
>> want to host the next conference. I contacted the Kenaitze Indian Tribe and
>> they said they would not be ready to host a conference in 2025, but they
>> might still be interested for 2026. So the question is: does that First
>> Nation from Northern BC still want to host a 2025 conference? If there is
>> anyone from that First Nation on this email list, please let us know if you
>> are still interested.
>>
>> If I do not hear back from anyone within about a month, I will look into
>> organizing a conference in Yellowknife in June 2025. I can't promise
>> anything yet, since I have to get permission and apply for funding, but
>> I've made it happen before so I can probably do it again. So if we go down
>> that road we can tentatively plan on a Yellowknife conference in June 2025
>> and a Kenai, Alaska conference in 2026.
>>
>> Please feel free to share any thoughts to this list, and like I said, if
>> there is anyone from Northern BC on this list that is still interested in
>> hosting a conference please do let us know.
>>
>> Mársı cho,
>>
>> ɂAlesı́
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