honor the language, honor the people, honor the scholar too

[Patricia Albers]

>As chair of the department in which Pat Warren has taken some
>classes in our Ojibwe and Dakota language programs, I feel it is
>necessary to indicate that while I respect his opinion, it should
>not be construed as reflecting the position of the teaching staff in
>our department.  As a department, we are actively engaged in
>supporting native language preservation on many different fronts
>from more "ivory-tower" documentation work to active community
>outreach, including the co-sponsorship of the recent Minnesota
>Indigenous Language Conference. We believe that a number different
>strategies need to be deployed to preserve native languages, and we
>recognize these will differ from one language and community
>situation to another. We oppose using the scholarship and pedagogy
>on native languages as a sword to settle conflicts whose origins
>typically reside elsewhere.
>
>Patricia C. Albers, Chair and Professor
>Department of American Indian Studies
>University of Minnesota
>
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