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Natasha Warner

The University of Arizona unveiled a new sign for the Center for Creative Photography today with Chemehuevi language included. I'm proud of the university for adding indigenous languages to university building signs, and for working well with the tribes to do this. The Senior Vice President who has taken charge of this project, Levi Esquerra, is Chemehuevi, making this sign especially meaningful. #Tucson #UniversityOfArizona #IndigenousLanguages

University and Chemehuevi leaders posed with the new sign. Blue sign with white lettering and copper frame. Sign includes English name and "Ocean woman is mother to all people. Water is all of life. - Chemehuevi Indian Tribe" with corresponding wording in Chemehuevi.
University and Chemehuevi leaders pulling the blanket off the new sign. Blue sign with white lettering saying "John P. Schaefer Center for Creative Photography," with Chemehuevi writing still under the blanket in this photo.
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Natasha Warner

The University of Arizona is gradually adding signage in Native American languages to university buildings, in collaboration with the tribes. We recently had a sign unveiling ceremony for the sign on the Health Sciences Innovation Building in Hia Ced O'odham. Hia Ced O'odham dancers performed. I'm proud of the role the Department of Linguistics has in this project together with the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI). #IndigenousLanguages #UniversityofArizona #linguistics #Tucson

White lettering on blue sign "Apidag Ki - A place of education for healers to breathe wellness into the spirit, mind, and body - Hia-Ced O'odham (The Sand People) - Health Sciences Innovation Building", with logo "A" above lettering
Brightly dressed Hia Ced O'odham women dancing with baskets held above their heads
Hia Ced O'odham and University of Arizona leadership about to remove the blanket covering the new sign
Hia Ced O'odham leadership standing alongside the new sign
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DoomsdaysCW

In other news...

Meet the 2024-2026 #NDN #Changemakers

By Jordynn Paz • March 5, 2025

"In October, NDN Collective announced the recipients of the 2024/26 Changemaker Fellowship, a cohort of 21 #Indigenous leaders from throughout #TurtleIsland, Islands of #Hawaii, #Borikén / #PuertoRico, the U.S. territories of American #Samoa, #Guam, the Northern #Mariana Islands, and the U.S. #VirginIslands. These incredible fellows are transforming their communities, defending Indigenous lands and waters, developing solutions for #regenerative and #sustainable futures, and revitalizing #IndigenousLanguages, #governance, #ceremonies and ways of being.

"We are honored to support the important and necessary work of each of these changemakers through this two-year fellowship program. With the NDN Changemaker Fellowship, individuals will focus on education, skill building, networking, community building, theory of change mapping, and mentorship."

Read more:
ndncollective.org/meet-the-202
#TraditionalKnowledge #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #SocialJustice #IndigenousHealth #IndigenousWellBeing #FoodSecurity #Decolonize #ProtectMotherEarth #LanguagePreservation #CulturePreservation #NDNCollective

NDN COLLECTIVE · MEET THE 2024-26 NDN CHANGEMAKERS - NDN COLLECTIVEIn October, NDN Collective announced the recipients of the 2024/26 Changemaker Fellowship, a cohort of 21 Indigenous leaders from throughout...
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Natasha Warner

Wow, this has been an emotional and intense day at work. It looks like the positive thing we've been working on putting a million pieces together on just might succeed, maybe. Plus the dissertation defense of a student I'm so proud of, plus I sat on the stage through graduation and saw some undergrads I know graduate, and met the parents of one of them. I also baked cookies last night with which to try to bribe our HR office into clicking "approve" (on a thing that's already approved). I mean, bribes and thank-you-for-your-work gifts are sometimes the same thing. Turns out they all work from home so I can't take them cookies. I gave the cookies to the Tech Support group instead. The student who defended is a Native Alaskan student doing language revitalization work with her community, and I'm so proud of her, and not a little proud also of my department for having a focus on this kind of work. What a day and week, including many positive things. #AcademicChatter #IndigenousLanguages

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Natasha Warner

Today the Poetry in Parks project by U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón dedicated a special picnic table engraved with Ofelia Zepeda's poem Cloud Song, at the Mica picnic area of Saguaro National Park East. Ofelia, who is herself the former poet laureate of Tucson, read the poem. Cloud Song is partly in Tohono O'odham, partly in English. A moderator led a discussion with Ofelia and Ada Limón. It's a beautiful location, and was a beautiful experience. If you get a chance to go to Saguaro Park East, stop at the Mica picnic area, about 1.75 miles along the one-way loop road. Update: photos attach correctly now. #IndigenousLanguages #Tucson #UniversityofArizona #poetry #nationalParks

Black letters on white on poorly lit picnic table: Na:nko Ma:s Cewagi (short mark on final i) Cloud Song by Ofelia Zepeda
Black letters on poorly lit white picnic table: Ce:daghim 'o 'ab wu:sañhim. (downward tail under s) To:tahim 'o 'ab wu:sañhim. (downward tail under s) Cuckuhim 'o 'ab him. Wepeghim 'o 'abai him. Greenly they emerge. In colors of blue they emerge. Whitely they emerge. In colors of black they are coming. Reddening, they are right here.
An older woman and a younger woman lifting a green cloth off of a picnic table, with desert growth in the background
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Anne Deschaine

WOW!!! Only $155 to go in the @Endangeredalphabets Kickstarter!!

Will you be backer number 200? Maybe you'll be the backer who pushes it over the goal!

kickstarter.com/projects/endan

EDIT ABOUT TWO MINUTES LATER: Number 200 did it!! Thanks to whoever you are, because now I get to read this book! 😂

THERE'S STILL TIME TO GET IN ON IT, THOUGH! CLICK THE LINK!

#calligraphy#handwriting#indigenousLanguages
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Anne Deschaine

Have some WaPo or LA Times subscription money to spend on a good cause?

There are THREE DAYS TO GO in @Endangeredalphabets Kickstarter. Support the awareness, preservation, and resilience of indigenous and minority writing systems, which are under threat around the world. Get a fascinating book you can turn to again and again, and/or a beautiful carving or pen!

kickstarter.com/projects/endan

#calligraphy#handwriting#indigenousLanguages
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Natasha Warner

The University of Arizona continues to add signage in Native American languages (mostly of Arizona) to university buildings. We're now up to at least 8 buildings with these 3 new ones. I was so pleased to notice one of the signs when I was walking across campus the other day. This is an initiative of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) and Linguistics. Part 1 of 2. #IndigenousLanguages #Tucson #Arizona

White text on blue sign with "A" symbol saying: Apidag Ki A Place of Education for Healers to Breathe Wellness into the Spirit, Mind, and Body _ Hia-Ced 0’odham (The Sand People) Health Sciences Innovation Building
White text on blue sign in brickwork, with large modern building behind it and desert greenery.
White text on blue sign with brickwork, in front of modern building with desert plants.
White text on blue sign: Goyá'hí, iit'in goshú yú got Teet Wisdom Guides You Along the True Path - Yavapai-Apache Nation (Former Chairman Vincent Randall) MCCLELLAND HALL ELLER COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT
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