Jack Buckskin named SA's Young Australian of the Year 2011

[RNLD Admin]

Dear RNLDers,

RNLD congratulates Vincent 'Jack' Buckskin, who has been named South
Australia's Young Australian of the
Year<http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/?m=vincent-buckskin-2011>2011.
Jack is now a state finalist in the Australian of the Year awards, the
outcome of which will be announced in Canberra on Australia Day Eve (25
January 2011).

As some of you will know, Jack's many accomplishments include participating
at InField 2010 in Oregon, where he co-taught  two workshops on Language
activism<http://logos.uoregon.edu/infield2010/workshops/language-activism/index.php>and
Strategies
for Re-Introducing Languages No Longer Spoken to Children and
Adults<http://logos.uoregon.edu/infield2010/workshops/index.php>and
presented a paper at the 17th
Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages
Symposium<http://pages.uoregon.edu/nwili/SILS/SILS.shtml>
.

We wish Jack every success in his ongoing work, which is significantly
strengthening the Kaurna language and providing inspiration to young
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

kind regards

-- 
Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity
www.rnld.org

Directors
Margaret Florey
Nick Thieberger

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