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Tlingit Revitalization in the News

From Seth:

I am writing now with some items that I thought may be of interest to many of you, particularly those of you with interests in language endangerment and revitalization.

The following are links to two news pieces that have aired recently on local Alaskan TV stations. They both concern programs aimed at preserving and revitalizing the Tlingit language.

The first segment concerns the Tlingit Immersion camps that have been run by Sealaska Heritage Institute. The second concerns the Tlingit translation of MacBeth that has been written and performed by the Perseverance Theater, and which was recently presented at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian. There's lots of great footage in both the pieces, with some nice appearances by various prominent Tlingit community leaders. (However, there's not really any analysis of the impact of either of these programs.)