Kellogg Foundation Leadership Gathering: Language Schools and Programs – Minneapolis, MN This historic, two-day meeting of 17 well-known language visionaries resulted in Pathways on a Language Landscape: A Planning Guide for Native Language Revitalization.įunder: W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Lannan Foundation Language Visionaries Gathering – Santa Fe, NM View agenda here and participant comments here.įunders: W.K. We may be getting there in different ways, but the planning practices are the same!”- Tribal Attendee “The most valuable part was realizing that we are all working toward the same goals. I think the gathering will be sending people back home with renewed energy and ideas. “It was like everyone had been waiting for this opportunity to convene and discuss language revitalization with such humanity and shared passion. Help us stay together so that we can support each other.Find new sources of funding for community language programs.Provide opportunities for language visionaries (experts) to visit our home communities to help us move our language programs forward.Attendees provided MICA with concrete recommendations that guide our Language Justice work today: This five-day gathering brought together 88 Tribal communities and 230 attendees, 17 national and international language visionaries, MacArthur award winners, philanthropic organizations, and government agencies to share hopes, dreams, and strategies for community-led language revitalization. Pathways to Fluency: A Gathering of Voices – Albuquerque, NM We work to reverse language loss through on-the-ground language consulting in home communities, community grantmaking, conferences, workshops and gatherings, publications, national studies, and advocacy. That’s why Wendy Red Star refers to language as the “ultimate form of decolonization,” and why one of MICA’s highest priorities is Language Justice. Unlike English or other European languages, Indigenous languages define our identities as unique peoples and align our thinking with our Indigenous world views. Historical trauma is a major, lingering cause of language loss today. policy of forcibly removing Native children from their families to attend boarding schools far from home, where they were harshly punished for speaking their languages and forced to speak English, has been passed down generationally. ![]() government to “civilize” Indian children as young as 5 years old. The Carlisle Indian Boarding School in Carlisle, PA was one of hundreds of Indian Boarding Schools run by the U.S.
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