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#NativeAmericaCalling: Language teachers celebrate success on #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Monday, October 13, 2025

"After an intensive two-year adult immersion program, the number of fluent #SpokaneSalish language speakers nearly doubled.

"The success represents the work of the #SpokaneLanguageHouse, a non-profit that is funded and supported by the #Spokane Tribe in #WashingtonState. Now, some of the immersion program graduates will be hired on as full-time language teaching staff as the tribe expands its language revitalization efforts.

"Meanwhile, the #YuchiTribe in #Oklahoma has established the #YuchiLanguageProject. As part of the work, the tribe developed a unique partnership with an #AustralianAboriginal nation to exchange ideas for revitalizing both of their endangered languages.

"Tune into Native America Calling to hear about these two recent Native language success stories.

"Also, hear about a five-part talk show, '#RematriatedVoices', centered on #Haudenosaunee culture and principles. The first episode airs on Indigenous Peoples Day on New York #PBS affiliate #WCNY.

"Guests on Native America Calling
#SulustuBarryMoses (Spokane Tribe of Indians), program manager for adult fluency training and executive director of the Spokane Language House

"#RichardGrounds (Yuchi and #Seminole), executive director of the Yuchi Language Project

"#MichelleSchenandoah (#Oneida), founder and executive lead of Rematriation"

Listen: https://indianz.com/News/2025/10/13/native-america-calling-language-teachers-celebrate-success-on-indigenous-peoples-day/

#IndigenousPeoples #LanguageExchange #LanguagePreservation #CulturalPreservation

Native America Calling: Language teachers celebrate success on Indigenous Peoples Day

After an intensive two-year adult immersion program, the number of fluent Spokane Salish language speakers nearly doubled.

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Show threadJonathan EmmesediJul 20, 2025

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...WCNY-FM, a public radio station in Syracuse, NY. I heard it on Austin's KMFA 89.5.

Although KMFA is largely listener supported, it does receive some funding from Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants. This financing will almost certainly end if the the current Republican attempt to defund public broadcasting is successful. I'm sure that WCNY-FM is under threat too.

""Feminine Fusion" would never be made or broadcast by a commercial station, and it is just one of a myriad of programs that inform, entertain, and educate all too likely to fall victim to the Republican war on public broadcasting

I was thinking of calling the GOP politicians responsible for this "philistines", but that is far too genteel and narrow a term. The war on public broadcasting is of a piece with the war on universities, on public libraries, on journalism, on science...I loathe these MAGA cap thugs (the Brownshirts of our time) so deeply!

In the meantime, support KMFA, one of the USA's best classical music resources, accessible both on the air and online, here:

https://kmfa.secureallegiance.com/kmfa/WebModule/Donate.aspx?P=WEBGENERAL&PAGETYPE=PLG&CHECK=4w3q6WZdX6Yfkez7%2fVhE971YhDw50SikSh2nq0qouhg%3d

#PublicBroadcasting #FeminineFusion #KMFA #WCNY #MAGA #USPolitics