Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language (fwd link)

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Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language

By Vincent Schilling August 14, 2012
US

In November 2009, Santa Fe Preparatory School in Santa Fe, New Mexico sent
out a newsletter announcing a self-study curriculum in which Native
teenagers would study the Tewa language with the help of a mentor. When
producer/director Aimée Broustra heard about it she decided to make a
documentary.

“I knew this would be a story of inspiration and hope and it was a story
that needed to be told,” Broustra said during a radio interview on Talk
1260 KTRC.

“The teenagers in The Young Ancestors are motivated and enthusiastic about
learning because they understand the symbiotic relationship between
language and culture; that one cannot survive for too long without the
other,” Broustra says on the documentary’s website, TheYoungAncestors.com.
“In a broader context the documentary explores the burgeoning movement by
Native Americans to revitalize their native languages in tribes throughout
America.”

Read more:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/14/documentary-follows-native-students-learning-and-preserving-tewa-language-128634

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