{"id":211452,"date":"2023-08-25T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=211452"},"modified":"2023-08-25T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:16:09","slug":"language-revitalization-project-highlighted-in-insight-into-diversity-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2023\/08\/25\/language-revitalization-project-highlighted-in-insight-into-diversity-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Revitalization Project Highlighted in INSIGHT into Diversity Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightintodiversity.com\/endangered-indigenous-languages\/\"><em>INSIGHT<\/em><em> into Diversity<\/em><\/a> highlights the efforts of institutions and researchers, including Montclair&#8217;s Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) program, that <span class=\"s2\">are collaborating to maintain, revitalize, and celebrate Indigenous languages.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>NAIS students and faculty have been working with the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape Nation on projects encompassing both environmental justice and language revitalization.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32766\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32766\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIn order to do the work of decolonizing and promoting well-being of Indigenous people and Indigenous communities in our region, we needed to follow the lead of the work that they have already been doing,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.edu\/~taham\">Maisa Taha<\/a>, associate professor of anthropology and faculty contributor to NAIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s4\">Montclair scholars began by helping to fight for the proper cleanup of Turtle Clan members\u2019 land, which has been damaged by industrial dumping. They are organizing records of the devastation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">Part of the NAIS program also involves language reclamation work. Students assist with community-based projects led by Nikole Pecore, a Munsee language expert and tribal member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Nation in Wisconsin who has worked on revitalization efforts across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI think there can be a sort of public misconception, a very deep and troubling misconception, that a) Indigenous people no longer exist among us non-Indigenous folks, and b) \u2026 if they do, \u2026 their languages and cultures are so small or antiquated that they no longer hold any relevance for our lives today,\u201d Taha says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s5\">The loss of languages is one of the most <\/span><span class=\"s3\">pressing crises of our time, Taha says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cAs these languages are being threatened so deeply, we\u2019re losing ways of understanding the world, of understanding our connection to the environment, of interacting, [and relating],\u201d Taha says.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightintodiversity.com\/endangered-indigenous-languages\/\"><em> INSIGHT<\/em><em> into Diversity<\/em><\/a> story<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about NAIS:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2022\/09\/09\/community-based-learning-makes-an-impact\/\">Community-Based Learning Makes an Impact<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2023\/04\/11\/students-plant-seeds-to-revive-a-native-american-language\/?wp_logged_in=true\">Students Plant Seeds to Revive a Native American Language<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of INSIGHT into Diversity highlights the efforts of institutions and researchers, including Montclair&#8217;s Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) program, that are collaborating to maintain, revitalize, and celebrate Indigenous languages.\u00a0 NAIS students and faculty have been working with the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape Nation on projects encompassing both environmental justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":211005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-native-american-and-indigenous-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211456,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211452\/revisions\/211456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}