Friday, November 10, 2023

8:30 am - 3:30 pm (MST)

$215

​

​

​Tribal communities face the tremendous challenge of preserving their community language while supporting their young learners to be successful academically. Some tribal communities do not view their community language as something to be used for the learning of academic content, and this presents a unique challenge for schools and language teachers to teach the Indigenous language equitably within the school setting. This summit will showcase Indigenous language leaders and the work they are doing in support of language preservation and revitalization.

​

Program:

8:30 am - Checkin

​

​

9:10 am - 10:30 am

Dr. Glenabah Martinez

Professor and Associate Dean

University of New Mexico

​

​

​

​

​

10:50 am - 12:10 pm

Dr. X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell

Professor of Native Languages

University of Alaska Fairbanks

​

​

​

​

​

​

1:30 pm - 2:50 pm

Victoriano De la Cruz

Researcher, Linguist, Activist

Native Speaker of Nahuatl Language

​

​

3:10 pm: La Cosecha Plenary Session

​