Tusweca Tiospaye presents The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Language Summit 2009 Uniting the Seven Council Fires to Save the Language

Tusweca Tiospaye presents The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Language Summit 2009 Uniting the Seven Council Fires to Save the Language

OPENING PRAYERS
Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate

KEYNO…TE SPEAKERS
- Darrell Kipp, Co-Founder of the Piegan Institute
- Ryan Wilson, Founder of the National Alliance to Save Native Languages
- Oswald McKay, Co-Founder of the Canku Kaga Dakota Family Immersion School

BREAKOUT SESSION PRESENTERS
- Earl Bullhead – Signals of the Heart
- Albert White Hat – Philosophy of the Language, Original vs. Modern Meanings, and Subcultures of the Lakota language
- Joseph Lafferty – Becoming the First Generation of the Next 7
- Chief Cameron Alexis – Alberta Sioux/Stonies
- Stephanie Charging Eagle – Using Symbolism to Teach Indigenous Knowledge
- Sitting Bull School & LiveAndTell – LiveAndTell: Computer Tools for Language Teachers
- Jim Green & Rosalie Little Thunder – Using YouTube to Teach Lakota
- Indigenous Language Institute – Ancient Voices, Modern Tools: Creating Your Own Language Materials
- Charley White Elk – Icun Wa Kapin
- John Peacock – Setting More Reasonable Language Learning Goals Than Fluency
- Almona Kills In Water – Learning and Preserving the Lakota Language
- Edward Starr – Traditional Government
- Peter Hill – Learning Lakota as a Second Language
- Delphine Red Shirt – Writing Systems that Work in Translation
- Dakota Iapi Teunkindapi Consortium – Keeping the Dakota Language Alive
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Ventures – Planning for Lakota Immersion Child Care
- Ahkwesahsne Freedom School – Role Modeling Method on How to Speak Your language
- Wilmer Mesteth – Historical Songs
- Cultural Survival – Exploring the Use of Native Languages by Mass Media Projects
- Dottie LeBeau – How Oppression and Internalized Oppression Affects Our Lakota Language
- Thornton Media – Cherokee Company Presents Nintendo DSi and iPod Touch/iPhone to Save Endangered Languages
- Oceti Sakowin Education Consortium – Alternative AYP: What 8 Schools are doing
- Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre – First Nations Language & Cultural Strategies in Saskatchewan
- Ben Black Bear Jr. & Sandra Black Bear – Lakota Idiomatic Expressions
- Canku Kaga Dakota Family Immersion School – Honoring Our Mothers’ and Grandmothers’ Teachings: Dakota Family Immersion
- Mary Louise Defender Wilson & The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Historic Preservation Office – Tanpa Wokeya: The Dakota Plank House
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Tribal Education Department – Overview of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Lakota Language Preservation Program
- Faith Spotted Eagle – Language Nest
- Leonard Little Finger – Spirit In Lakota Land

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Our sponsors thus far…
- Nakota Designs- Nakota Dogs Skateboard Movement- Indian Support Associations in Norway- Prairie Island Dakota Community- Lakota Country Times- Gathering Thunder Foundation- Thunder Valley CDC

PLEASE JOIN US IN SUPPORT of The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Language Summit 2009 – Uniting the Seven Council Fires to Save the Language
Donations can be sent to Tusweca Tiospaye attn: Language Summit P.O. Box 693, Pine Ridge, SD 57770
More sponsors are on the move, will keep you updated….. join us on the front lines of change for our Nations… for our youth, for change in our communities.
Contact Mike at (605) 867-6193 or (605) 867-5174 or (605) 454-7815 • mike@tuswecatiospaye.org • www.tuswecatiospaye.org… to see how you can help.
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Tatanka Iyotaka – Sitting Bull
The last major gathering of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) was in 1876. It was Sitting Bull that brought the people together to live the traditional way of life that had been given by their ancestors. During this gathering of the people, George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry attacked their peaceful camp and were quickly wiped out by men and women as they defended their homes, their children, their elders, and their way of life.
Today, 133 years later we’re asking Tatanka Iyotaka to once again unite the Seven Council Fires to celebrate and defend our way of life by revitalizing our language.
THE TIME IS NOW!