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The  27th annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium will be held June 14-18, 2021 at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada on the lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.

As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, SILS27 will be taking place fully online in 2021.

SILS27 will be hosted jointly by Queen’s University; Tsi Tyonnheht Onkwawenna Lanaguage and Cultural Centre, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory; and Kingston Indigenous Languages Nest (KILN) a part of the urban Indigenous community of Kingston, ON.

SILS27 will focus on global perspectives of Indigenous Language Revitalization, as reflected in the Symposium title, “Global Indigeneity: Language from the Four Directions.” In addition to bringing together voices from around the globe, this theme is inspired by the four directions teachings for understanding health and community in holistic perspective, encompassing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. With this in mind, the Program Committee has identified four broad topic areas:
  1. Physical – Technologies and products for language revitalization
  2. Mental – Insights and innovations in revitalization research
  3. Emotional – Community connections for revitalization
  4. Spiritual – Creative arts and language revitalization

For more information about the logistics and format of the conference, we invite you to visit the conference logistics page on our website, or to stop by the Social Rooms and Help Desk space on Zoom, which will be open throughout the conference. All Zoom links are available here on Sched—we ask that you don’t share them with anyone not registered for the conference, but anyone is welcome to register late for the conference, and will get access to Sched within 24 hours of registering. 
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Monday, June 14 • 3:45pm - 4:15pm
Language and Culture Revitalization Through an Anishinaabe Theoretical Lens: Perceptions of a Hebrew Collaborator

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What does an example of striving to be an ally or good-relation look like, with respect to Indigenous language and culture revitalization? In my research I will answer that question by analyzing my participation in two Anishinaabe and Lunaapeew revitalization projects. The first project involves my work with Knowledge-keeper Brent Stonefish of Eelunaapeewi Luhkeewiit, Ontario, supporting his retelling of the Lunaapeew creation story in that language. The second project involves Anishinaabe language and cultural teaching and learning in the ceremonial community hosted by Elders Mark and Wendy Phillips in Havelock, Ontario. In my analysis I will apply arts-based autoethnography, to place the projects in dialogue with stories of my Israeli-Hebrew familial heritage and its part in the successes and failures of language and culture revitalization and reclamation. My research design follows an Anishinaabe theoretical framework shared by the Elders Phillips. Arts-based research and storytelling are integral to the framework. Through my integrated methodology, theoretical framework, and art creation, I weave together the threads, themes and study findings. Lastly, by applying that specific Anishinaabe theoretical framework, the research explores what the framework itself offers to revitalization and ally-ship in the context of language and culture revitalization and the wider research literature
Chair
avatar for Sarah Shulist

Sarah Shulist

Associate Professor, Queen's University

Speakers
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Rotem Raz

PhD Candidate, University of Toronto - OISE
I am a PhD Candidate form Ontario Institute for Studies in Eduction, at the program for Language and literacies Education. in my study I am interested to support language revitalization by looking at the ethical place of allies, the intersections of language and culture revitalization... Read More →

Monday June 14, 2021 3:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
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  Talks, Physical - technologies & products