#FlashbackFriday
Autumn 2021.
Warming up & chatting with #HereditaryChief Sonny Wallas (David Hanuse), Chief Ye-kue-klas of [Gwat’sinuxw (Quatsino)] nation.
He was sharing with me about feeling bullied/outnumbered by band council folks who are dishonouring their ancestors/betraying Creator & his work with culture & language preservation.

Wallas’s great-grandfather was James Wallas—coauthor of #Kwakiutl Legends. He was the former hereditary Chief of the Quatsino #FirstNation of the Northern #VancouverIsland #Kwakiutl.

Learn more:
https://himwitsa.com/products/kwakiutl-legends

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/northwestern-vancouver-island-likely-escaped-the-ice-age/

Chief Sonny's #Indigenous #linguistic# work:
https://as.amphilsoc.org/repositories/2/resources/3432

https://www.quatsino.org/history

https://www.asparagusmagazine.com/articles/indigenous-communities-on-vancouver-island-are-healing-forests-for-the-future

#IndigenousElders #KnowledgeKeepers #LanguageKeepers #CutureKeepers #NativeWisdom #Decolonization #VancouverIsland #PortHardy #TraditionalChief #NativeChief #BCFirstNations #UNDRIP #LandBack #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #NativeLanguages #Frontlines #Blockade

#introduction post for my linguistics account, updated as of 2025:

Hi! I'm Daisy, I have my MPhil in theoretical #linguistics from UiT, the Arctic University of Norway. I am academia adjacent and greatly displeased.

My research interests are (adult) second/third/nth #languageAcquisition, #multilingualism and #multilectalism, #nativelanguages, and language revitalization. I'm primarily into #syntax.

My main account is @theklokwerkparallel where I'll probably talk about more general things!

The Guardian (podcast): "From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature"

A thought-provoking meditation on language and identity.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jun/11/from-the-archive-ngugi-wa-thiongo-three-days-with-a-giant-of-african-literature-podcast

#NativeLanguages #Kenya #NgũgĩWaThiongo

On 27th May, Peru celebrates Native Languages Day. 2 facts about #Quechua:

Renata Flores Rivera blends pop & traditional in her Quechua language songs to help keep the language alive.

Roxana Quispe Collantes became the first person to ever defend a thesis in Quechua in 2019.

#Peru #onThisDay #nativeLanguages

NYT: This Language Was Long Believed Extinct. Then One Man Spoke Up.

Blas Jaime has spent nearly two decades resurrecting Chaná, an Indigenous language in Argentina that he learned from his mother.

#Argentina #NativeLanguages #chana

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/americas/indigenous-language-chana-blas-jaime.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok0.e_Wn.HzMkyItNbqel&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR1vinnywQCt53x2b8hNyiD6uU_LQpQ4IWamoNrdw43DUfMTNtdg783jnc8

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay to my fellow American immigrants, and to the folks who were here first!

#NativeAmericans #NativeLanguages #NativeAmericanLanguages #Languages #Languagestodon

#UBC designed a #NewFont that allows characters from #Musqueam #Indigenous #language to be typed on computers & match formal institutional #font used on UBC documents/signs.
Most characters in Musqueam language's - #hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ - pronounced HUN-kuh-mee-num - aren't available on English language keyboard.

The new font is also capable of #typesetting the language of the #Syilx, a #FirstNation located in the same area as UBC's #Okanagan campus

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6868283

#NativeLanguages #BCEducation

@linguistics
#NativeLanguages #Languages #EthnicGroups #BajaCalifornia

The Kiliwa language (Ko'leeu Nyaha) is the most endangered #Mexican native language. It is currently spoken by 3 elderly persons in the State of Baja California, although the entire community consists of 11 individuals. The language belongs to the larger „Yumano“ linguistic group, which also comprises the languages of neighboring groups such as the Cucapá, Kumiai and Papai, all of them with less than 400 fluent speakers.

#Gilakasla - #Welcome 🦅
#AlertBay has a boardwalk along #waterfront with 5 #roofed #lookouts - called #awakwas - each has a #painted #carving overhead that represents a #Namgis ancestor.

#Kwakwaakaawakw #NamgisNation #NamgisTerritory #BCCoast #PNW #CormorantIsland #BCFirstNations #IndigenousEducation #IndigenousNations #IndigenousSovereignty #NativeLanguages #BCNorthIslands