The Tusweca Tiospaye will present the 2009 Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Language Summit, a gathering scheduled for Nov. 12-14 in Rapid City, S.D. to unite the Seven Council Fires. I’d encourage everyone to attend, anyone who cares about preserving language and a way of life for our people. Attend this event even if you aren’t directly involved in teaching the language. Ultimately, everyone is involved in teaching the language because it begins in the home with you, your children and your family.
Check out the line-up of keynote speakers. This is an amazing cast of language folks and promises to be an event that will light a fire in your life to preserve indigenous languages in the United States and in your community.
Keynote Speakers
– Darrell Kipp, Co-Founder of the Piegan Institute
– Ryan Wilson, Founder of the National Alliance to Save Native Languages
– Oswald McKay, Co-Founder of the Canku Kaga Dakota Family Immersion School
BREAKOUT SESSION PRESENTERS– Earl Bullhead – Signals of the Heart
– Albert White Hat – Philosophy of the Language, Original vs. Modern Meanings, and Subcultures of the Lakota language
– Joseph Lafferty – Becoming the First Generation of the Next 7
– Chief Cameron Alexis – Alberta Sioux/Stonies
– Stephanie Charging Eagle – Using Symbolism to Teach Indigenous Knowledge
– Sitting Bull School & LiveAndTell – LiveAndTell: Computer Tools for Language Teachers
– Jim Green & Rosalie Little Thunder – Using YouTube to Teach Lakota
– Indigenous Language Institute – Ancient Voices, Modern Tools: Creating Your Own Language Materials
– Charley White Elk – Icun Wa Kapin
– John Peacock – Setting More Reasonable Language Learning Goals Than Fluency
– Almona Kills In Water – Learning and Preserving the Lakota Language
– Edward Starr – Traditional Government
– Peter Hill – Learning Lakota as a Second Language
– Delphine Red Shirt – Writing Systems that Work in Translation
– Dakota Iapi Teunkindapi Consortium – Keeping the Dakota Language Alive
– Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Ventures – Planning for Lakota Immersion Child Care
– Ahkwesahsne Freedom School – Role Modeling Method on How to Speak Your language
– Wilmer Mesteth – Historical Songs
– Cultural Survival – Exploring the Use of Native Languages by Mass Media Projects
– Dottie LeBeau – How Oppression and Internalized Oppression Affects Our Lakota Language
– Thornton Media – Cherokee Company Presents Nintendo DSi and iPod Touch/iPhone to Save Endangered Languages
– Oceti Sakowin Education Consortium – Alternative AYP: What 8 Schools are doing
– Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre – First Nations Language & Cultural Strategies in Saskatchewan
– Ben Black Bear Jr. & Sandra Black Bear – Lakota Idiomatic Expressions
– Canku Kaga Dakota Family Immersion School – Honoring Our Mothers’ and Grandmothers’ Teachings: Dakota Family Immersion
– Mary Louise Defender Wilson & The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Historic Preservation Office – Tanpa Wokeya: The Dakota Plank House
– Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Tribal Education Department – Overview of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Lakota Language Preservation Program
– Faith Spotted Eagle – Language Nest
– Leonard Little Finger – Spirit In Lakota Land
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