Din éLanguage Revitalization and Preservation Focus of UNM Native American Heritage Month Event (fwd)

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Diné Language Revitalization and Preservation Focus of UNM Native American
Heritage Month Event

November 09, 2009
USA
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Diné Language Revitalization and Preservation is the focus of a guest
presentation with Council Delegate Leonard Anthony of Shiprock, New Mexico. The
event is set for Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 12 -2 p.m. in UNM Student Union
Building, Fiesta rooms A&B. This event is free and open to the public.

The presentation is sponsored by the Navajo/Diné Language program and Diné of
UNM in conjunction with the campus wide celebration of Native American Heritage
Month.

Preserving language, a fundamental component of Diné life and thought, is
important to the Diné people, as it is with other indigenous groups.

This presentation is interwoven with Diné cultural foundational principles. From
the point of view of the Diné people, language and culture are inseparable so
this presentation will look language preservation and revitalization as well as
cultural preservation among younger Diné generations. The presentation
re-enforces cultural relationship regardless of religious affiliation. The
principal focus is preservation with appropriate approaches.

Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal at unm.edu