Jack Buckskin wins Channel 9 Young Achiever Award

[Margaret Florey]

Dear RNLDers

Congratulations to Jack Buckskin who has been named winner of the Young
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander section of the Channel 9 Young
Achiever Awards for his work teaching dance and the Kaurna language. The
awards are listed here
<http://www.awardsaustralia.com/YAA_sa_win10.html>and Jack's
achievement is highlighted in a news
article<http://news-review-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/embracing-his-kaurna-heritage/>in
the News Review Messenger.

Jack will be co-teaching two workshops at InField
2010<http://logos.uoregon.edu/infield2010/workshops/index.php>in June
— "Strategies for re-Introducing languages no longer spoken to
children and adults" (with Rob Amery) and "Language activism" (with Kennedy
Bosire, Phil Cash Cash, Margaret Florey, Susan Penfield).

cheers,
Margaret


-- 
Margaret Florey
Consultant linguist
Director, Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity <www.rnld.org>

Email: Margaret.Florey at gmail.com
Ph: +61 (0)4 3186-3727 (mob.)
skype: margaret_florey
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