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April 2020
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Lesson Writing Intensive 2020 (Tentative)
April 20, 2020 - June 12, 2020 (Tentative Dates) This spring, in preparation for the 2020 Summer Language Intensive, the WAYK team will spend 8 weeks working with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Department of Culture and Language to further develop their novice-level curriculum for Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim. TWN’s Department of Culture and Language is strongly supported by the Nation and supplementally funded through the Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI) and the British Columbia Languages Initiative (BCLI). TWN’s language program also collaborates with other…
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Anchorage 2020 Spring/Summer Mini-Language Intensive (Tentative)
May 25, 2020 - June 19, 2020 (Tentative) This year, in the early spring and summer, the WAYK team and members of the regional Unangam Tunuu team from the Pribilof and Aleutian islands will gather in Anchorage for a "mini" Language Intensive following the regional spring visits to Atka and St. Paul. As APIA (the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association) completes the first year of their new three-year language initiative with support from ANA (the Administration for Native Americans), the WAYK…
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WAYK 2020 Summer Language Intensive
June 26, 2020 - August 23, 2020 This summer, the WAYK team will live in the Vancouver area and work with a team of local speakers and learners. The team that comes together in North Vancouver will build on the existing work done over the past several years (including experiences working with both Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and hen̓q̓əmin̓em̓). Over the course of the Summer Intensive (June 26th — August 23rd), we hope to achieve several goals that we have developed in cooperation…
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