WILLIAMSBURG, Va., April 14 -- William and Mary issued the following news release:
On Feb. 21 - International Mother Language Day - 65 tribal members from across Virginia and the Eastern Seaboard gathered at the Muscarelle Museum of Art for William & Mary's first Indigenous Language Symposium, hosted by the American Indian Research Center and the Powhatan Algonquian Intertribal Roundtable (PAIR).
The daylong convening was built around a simple question: What role can the university play in supporting Indigenous communities in reclaiming their language?
The answer, two years in the making, brought together tribal leaders, linguists and W&M students and scholars for workshops, teaching demonstrations and difficult conversations - all of it...