The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Language Summit 2008 Uniting the Seven Council Fires to Save the Language

OPENING PRAYERS

Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Ron His Horse Is Thunder, President - Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
• Darrell Kipp, Co-Founder of the Piegan Institute
• Rosalie Little Thunder, Chair - Seventh Generation Fund

BREAKOUT SESSION PRESENTERS

• Earl Bullhead - Use of Stories, Songs, and History to Teach the Language
• Albert White Hat - Philosophy of the Language, Original vs. Modern Meanings, and Subcultures of the Lakota language
• Robert Two Crow - Exploring Indigenous Language Research
• Darrell Kipp - Immersion Schools
• Bryan Charging Cloud - Okiciyapi, Working Together to Strengthen the Language and Encourage New Speakers
• Lakota Language Consortium - Lakota Language Teacher Training and the Future of the Language
• Jim Green - The Silent Way - Teaching Like your Grandparents
• Dakota Wicohan - Dakota Learners As Teachers - A Response to the Dakota Language Crisis and the Loss of Fluent Elder Speakers
• Alexis Nakota Sioux Language Program - TBA
• Robert Four Star - TBA
• Stephanie Charging Eagle - Child Behavior Management for Parents, Teachers, and Administrators - Lakota Language Identifies Values, Behaviors, and Protocol of the Lakota Way of Life
• The Association on American Indian Affairs Native Language Program - Language Revitalization from a Grassroots Perspective
• Rosalie Little Thunder - Akiciyapi, Using Competitive Games to Teach and Promote the Language
• Faith Spotted Eagle - Sacred Sites and the Language (Odakota)
• Leonard Little Finger - TBA
• Archie Beauvais - Rosebud Sioux Tribe Lakota Language Preservation Project - Project Goals, History of Language, Writing Styles, Collaboration
• Dottie LeBeau - Internalized Oppression
• Wilmer Mesteth - Ohunkankan
• Biagio Arobba - The Art of Lakota CDs and Software
• Jerome Kills Small - Wicho'iye Kaga Pi, Bound Morphemes: Lakota Language Word Creation from Word Stems
• Dakota Iapi Teunkindapi Consortium - Overview of Language Revitalization Efforts

Our sponsors thus far...

• Oglala Sioux Tribe
• Lower Sioux Indian Community
• Upper Sioux Indian Community
• HONOR THE EARTH
• Seventh Generation Fund
• National Geographic

PLEASE JOIN US IN SUPPORT of The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Language Summit 2008 - Uniting the Seven Council Fires to Save the Language

Donations can be sent to Tusweca Tiospaye attn:
Language Summit P.O. Box 693, Pine Ridge, SD 57770

More sponsors are on the move, will keep you updated..... join us on the front lines of change for our Nations... for our youth, for change in our communities.

Contact Mike at (605) 867-6193 www.tuswecatiospaye.org... to see how you can help.

Funding for Research that Supports Social Change

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation provides grants of $10,000 to $20,000 to support research that supports social change.

The Foundation specifically supports research that focuses on:

• Clear social policy objectives
• Institutional and educational practices
• Legislative and regulatory changes
• Organizing previously unorganized groups
• Building collective community capacity and/or power (such as expanding membership base)
• Linguistic issues, such as literacy, language maintenance and expansion, multilingualism and its implications, and their possible intersection with social and policy issues.

The Foundation supports projects that address institutional rather than individual or behavioral change and/or research and initiatives that provide insight into sociological and linguistic issues that may be useful to specific groups and or communities.

It supports projects that have an explicit research design and a concrete connection to public or community impact. The research should ideally build an organization or constituency's potential to expand public knowledge, impact policy, and create social change.

Complete guidelines and on-line concept application for the August 15, 2008 deadline are available at
http://comm-org.wisc.edu/sif .

Contact Prentice Zinn: pzinn at grantsmanagement dot com or (617) 426–7080 x307.

Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning: An Ojibwe Story

Language is a carrier of human identity. It is a vehicle by which we understand and express our very sense of self. Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe language. In “Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning: An Ojibwe Story,” he describes an unfolding experience of how language shapes us culturally and spiritually. Some memories, Treuer believes, can only be carried forward by Ojibwe.

“Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning: An Ojibwe Story” will air on public radio stations nationwide from Thursday, June 19–Wednesday, June 25. It will also be featured online at www.speakingoffaith.org where you can download and podcast the program.

Speaking of Faith is public radio’s Peabody Award-winning conversation about religion, meaning, ethics and ideas produced and distributed by American Public Media.

Announcing the 29th Annual American Indian Language Development Institute

June 4—July 2, 2008 University of Arizona

Creating Spaces for Indigenous Languages in Everyday Life

The University of Arizona and Department of Language, Reading & Culture invite you to the 29th American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI). AILDI 2008 will have a special focus on Native teachers in the classroom and language. Special topics will include NCLB & Native students, language immersion methods in the classroom, Native children's literature & writing and schooling in Native American communities. Our theme, Creating Spaces for Indigenous Languages in Everyday Life reflects this emphasis and will be highlighted with guest speakers, presentations, activities, projects, and fieldtrips.

AILDI provides a unique educational experience for teachers of Native children. The AILDI format offers Native and non-Native teachers the opportunity to become researchers, practitioners, bilingual/bicultural curriculum specialists, and especially effective language teachers. The common concern of language loss, revitalization and maintenance brings educators, parents, tribal leaders and community members to this university setting to study methods for teaching Native languages and cultures and to develop materials.

AILDI offers six graduate credits or undergraduate credit hours during four weeks of intensive study. Courses can be applied toward regular degree programs and teacher endorsements.

Please visit our website at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi for more information.