Fwd: Native Nations, Native Voices

[phil cash cash]

fyi, I believe that this festival was cancelled recently.

Phil
UofA, ILAT

On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:18 AM, d_z_o wrote:

> FYI...  DZO
>
> --- In MINEL at yahoogroups.com, "gordonbronitsky" <g.bronitsky at att.net>
> wrote:
>
> I am working to create Native Nations, Native Voices--a festival to
> honor contemporary Native language writers. To honor Native language
> authors, Native language writers have been invited to participate in
> a week-long festival. Writers will read from their works in their own
> languages; National language translations will be made available to
> the audience at the option of each writer. A special effort has been
> made to include and honor high school and college authors in Native
> languages, for they are the future of languages. Selected writers
> represent as broad a range of languages and styles as possible.
>
> Over 500 Native Nations, each with its own language and culture.
> These are the Nations which were encountered by the first Europeans
> to enter North America. Yet now Native languages are under threat
> everywhere, due to Euro-American educational policies, disease, and
> the virtual omnipresence of English language television. Some
> languages are extinct--from Guale to Esalen, from Eyak to Timucuan.
> Others are only spoken by a handful of elderly individuals.
>
> Yet throughout Native America and beyond, a small but growing body of
> writers are giving new voice to Native languages, using their own
> languages to write about and confront the world they live in, the
> world of the Twenty First Century. Often unknown outside their own
> communities, such writers have much to say to all of us.
>
> Right now, participants include
> 1. Greenland--Jokum Nielsen (Kalaallisut [Greenlandic])
> 2. Canada--Floyd Favel (Cree), Peter Irniq (Inuktitut)
> 3. United States--Eveline Battiest Steele (Choctaw), Nia Francisco
> and Nora Yazzie (Navajo), Dominik Tsosie (outstanding high school
> writer--Navajo), Virgil Reeder. (Kawaikagamedzene [Laguna Pueblo]),
> Frances Washburn (Lakota)
> 4. Hawai'i--Kainani Kahaunaele, Larry Kimura (Hawai'ian)
> 5. Saipan--Frances Sablan (Chamorro)
> 6. Guam--Peter Onedera (Chamorro)
> 7. Mexico--Jesus Salinas Pedraza (Nyahnyu [Otomi]), Diego Méndez Guzm
> (Tzeltal Maya), Ruperta Bautista Vazquez (Tzotzil Maya), Jun Tiburcio
> (Totonac)
> 8. Peru--Martin Castillo (Quechua), Felix Julca (Quechua)
> 9. Brazil--Nanbl?Grakan (Xokleng)
>
> Might this be of interest? Naturally I would be happy to provide more
> information or answer any questions you might have.
> Thank you.
>
> Yours,
>
> Gordon Bronitsky, PhD
> Bronitsky and Associates
> 3715 La Hacienda Dr NE
> Albuquerque, NM 87110
>
> 505-256-0260
> e-mail g.bronitsky at att.net
>
>
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