[EDLING:2018] Seminole Language Revitalization 11/9

[Karl Swinehart]

The following talk will be held as part of the provost's "Dialogues Across Indian Country" and will take place at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.  For more details follow the link:
                                                                http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/events/calitem.php?which=1127
               Dialogues Across Indian Country            : Saving Native American Languages, For Whom?              
               Thu November 9
4:30 pm                         
                             Richard Grounds (Yuchi/Seminole)
 Project Director for the Euchee (Yuchi) Language Project based in Sapulpa, Oklahoma
 
 After centuries of inestimable losses of land and resources, patterns of physical genocide, legal attacks on ceremonial continuity, and assaults on cultural vitality through assimilationist policies, Native nations are only now facing, perhaps, their greatest loss: the silencing of their original languages. This presentation examines the nature of this potential loss and clarifies strategies for revitalizing Native languages in relation to available financial, institutional, and cultural resources. As the scholarly community awakens to the prospect of losing the essential language connection to the ancient and rich worlds of Indigenous knowledge, the questions become: who will benefit from the efforts that are being made to preserve Native languages, and are there effective schemes of cooperation to overcome the political challenges in academia and within Indigenous communities?
 
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