Southern Michif, a critically endangered Métis language, has limited publicly available resources, particularly in areas like traditional ecological knowledge. Allison’s project seeks to address this gap by creating a Southern Michif nature guide, documenting approximately 200 plant, animal, and fungi names gathered from dictionaries, recordings, interviews, and unpublished sources. Each entry in the guide will … Allison Guthrie
Yanomami is part of the Yanomam language family and is spoken by approximately 20,000 Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest, primarily in southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil. This language family consists of six languages and is not known to be related to any other. While Yanomami remains the primary means of communication in many communities, efforts to … David Good
The Quechua Chanka language (ISO 639-3/[quy]) is spoken in the central Andes of Ayacucho, Peru by an estimated one million speakers—one of the largest varieties of Quechua still in use. Despite these total native speakers, the numbers of children actually learning Quechua are in decline for many socio-cultural reasons. Existing Quechua-speaking youth regularly face discrimination … Floro Ortiz Contreras
Since the 1990s, the Mexican constitution has recognized a right for citizens to receive primary education in their native language, an important phase in improving the conditions of the nation’s Indigenous communities. Unfortunately, due to a challenging combination of lack of support for training teachers and few economically lucrative opportunities involving Indigenous languages, the number … Hilario Poot Cahun