UW-Madison s Languages Initiative/Enwejig Presentation – Language Institute – UW–Madison wisc.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wisc.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ONLINE: Why You Can t Teach United States History without American Indians
Apr 21, 2021 3:00 PM
April 7, 2021
media release: For too many students, teachers, and scholars of U.S. history, Native American history has been at best an add-on - a subject dealt with at the margins of other topics. This webinar brings together four dynamic scholars to talk together about the methods and questions that are challenging this marginalization and to show why you can t teach U.S. history without American Indians.
This webinar is part of Our Shared Future, the University of Wisconsin-Madison s ongoing effort to educate the campus and the broader community on the Ho-Chunk Nation, the eleven other First Nations within the borders of Wisconsin, and the history they share with the university.
Preservation Society offers Creativity from Crises lecture series newportri.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newportri.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MEMO TO:
City Council, City of Los Angeles (CD 1: Gil Cedillo, CD 2: Paul Krekorian, CD 3: Bob Blumenfield, CD 4: Nithya Raman, CD 5: Paul Koretz, CD 6: Nury Martinez, CD 7: Monica Rodriguez, CD 8: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, CD 9: Curren D. Price Jr., CD 10: Mark Ridley-Thomas, CD 11: Mike Bonin, CD 12: John Lee, CD 13: Mitch O’Farrell, CD 14: Kevin de León, CD 15: Joe Buscaino)
Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
Heidi Marston, Executive Director, LAHSA
FROM: The undersigned faculty, UCLA, USC, UCI, Occidental College
We write to express our grave and urgent concerns about the recent displacement of the homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake. Many of you have either been actively involved in such displacement or supported it through your silent acquiescence. Especially troubling is the Mayor’s statement, suggesting that such displacement serves as a useful precedent and template. As reported by the LA Times on March 27, 2021 “Mayor Eric Garcetti framed the effort a
University of Minnesota to add 2nd Indigenous language house
KATELYN VUE, The Minnesota Daily
April 4, 2021
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A new University of Minnesota Living Learning Community (LLC) called the Dakota Language House will launch next fall to advance and support students’ learning of the Dakota language.
Radius Apartments in Dinkytown will house the LLC for students to live and learn Dakota together. An LLC is housing assigned for students to live together in a community dedicated to similar interests, academic goals and personal direction.
The American Indian studies department and the Dakota Language Program collaborated to develop the Dakota Language House to create LLCs based on languages taught in the department, focusing on language revitalization.