The opening plenary presentation was given by Musqueam Elder Larry Grant, who has served since 2000 as an Adjunct Professor with the UBC First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, and since 2002 as the Elder-in-Residence at the UBC First Nations House of Learning. He is also appointed as a Consultant for the Musqueam Indian Band Language and Culture Department. Please click on the image below to view his presentation, entitled “My Personal Journey to the Language of My Mother and My Community.”
As part of our commitment to public education outreach and our goal to enrich public discourse with respect to the inspiring efforts of many individuals and communities – often in productive partnerships with post-secondary research institutions – to ‘breathe life’ back into the critically endangered Indigenous languages in our midst, the keynote addresses by Leanne Hinton and Daryl Baldwin were both open to the public and are available for viewing by clicking the images or presentation titles below.
“Breath of Life: its origins, evolution, and transformative impacts”
Leanne Hinton, professor emerita
Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley & Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
Leanne Hinton specializes in endangered languages and is an advocate and practicing trainer in the field of language revitalization. Hinton has helped found several organizations for language revitalization, and has helped design several widely-used revitalization programs and strategies. She has written and edited numerous books and articles on language revitalization, and has won several awards for her work.
Location & Timing
Monday, May 15, 2017
10:30am
Fairmont Social Lounge, St. John’s College
2111 Lower Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z4
“Language reconstruction and strengthening community: the role of archival resources”
Daryl Baldwin, Director, Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Daryl Baldwin is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The Myaamia Center is a unique collaborative effort supported by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for the purpose of advancing the language and cultural needs of the Myaamia people. Daryl received an MA in linguistics from the University of Montana. He has worked with the Myaamia people developing language and cultural materials since 1995. For an update on the projects currently under development through the Myaamia Center please visit the web site at www.myaamiacenter.org. Daryl is also a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Location & Timing
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
9:30 – 11:30am
Fairmont Social Lounge, St. John’s College
2111 Lower Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z4