Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium 

Please join us for the Seventh Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium. In keeping with this year's theme, "Revitalization in Action: Language Learning in Practice", there will be over 35 workshop sessions on "how to do" language revitalization. Information on workshops will be coming soon. Registration is closed. Thank you for your interest.

Hotel accomodations are are available at:

Mystic Lake Casino Hotel

2400 Mystic Lake Boulevard

Prior Lake, MN 55372 

To reserve rooms call Mystic Lake at (952) 445-9000 or toll free at (800) 262-7799 ask for reservations. To book at the group rate identify yourself as participant in the Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium event.

Online reservations can be made via http://USMLC.webhotel.microsdc.us/ by entering the group block code 1309MINNES_002

To receive the group rate  ($89.00 per night), reservations must be made by phone or online by August 23rd, 2013. Any reservations made after this date will receive will be subject to standard guestroom rates.

 

 

 

 

Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium Agenda September 23-24

“Revitalization in Action”

 

 Sunday                

9/22/2013                4:00pm-8:00pm    Registration        Ballroom foyer

 

Monday                

9/23/2013                7:00am-10:00am    Registration        Ballroom foyer

 

                           7:30-8:30    Breakfast        Ballroom

 

8:30   Blessing, Opening, and welcome; Jerry Dearly-blessing, Drum Group-Hoka Hey; Minneapolis/St. Paul, SMSC Welcome    Ballroom

 

 

                           9:15-10:00    Keynote    Leslie Harper    Ballroom

 

                           10:00-10:15    Break        

 

                           10:15-12:00PM Breakout sessions I        

 

 

Dr. Erich Longie (Dakota and Ojibwe Focus) Using Digital Gaming to Incorporate Culture into the Classroom   Ballroom

 

 

Lee Staples (with Chato Gonzales) (Ojibwe Focus) Guide to Spiritual Growth    little crow1

 

 

Pat Ningewance (Ojibwe and Dakota Focus) Facilitating Fluency at Native Language Camps, Classrooms, and Perhaps at Home

 little crow 2

 

John Nichols, Nora Livesay, and Michael Sullivan (Ojibwe focus): Using the Ojibwe People's Dictionary

(limit 15)  wabasha1

 

(Ojibwe and Dakota Focus) Teacher Panel Technology: Using and making BYKI with Mary Hermes, Joe Bedickson, Sheldon Noel, Gabe Desroisers (Ojibwe and Dakota Focus)   wabasha2

 

Sonya Zapata (Dakota Focus) mahkato

 

12:00-12:45    Lunch        Ballroom

 

12:45-1:45 Ryan Wilson, John Poupart and guests:  Legislation for Language Revitalization Discussion     grand ballroom

 

1:45-3:30 Breakout sessions II        

 

 Janis Fairbanks (Ojibwe Focus):Using Oral History to Trace Ojibwe Traditions Through Ojibwe Singing Practices and Why it Matters    little crow1

 

 

Neil and Monica McKay (Dakota Focus): Teaching Dakota Language in the Community With Language Games.   little crow2

 

Brian M&Eric Redix (Ojibwe Focus) Gaganoonididaa-Native Languages and Radio     wabasha1

 

Melissa Boyd (Ojibwe and Dakota Focus): First Year Achievements and Struggles in Running a Preschool Immersion Classroom   wabasha2

 

Wil Meya (All Focus) Revitalization Through Nonprofits: Funding and Issues    Ballroom

 

Elder conversations    shakopee

 

Thea Lee (All Focus): Body, Language & Collective Traumas: An Experiential Window Into Why The Body Matters in Learning Ancestral Languages and Understanding Collective Traumas   mahkato

 

                           3:30-3:45    Break    

 

                           3:45-4:45 Breakout sessions III  

 

Margaret Noori (Ojibwe Focus):  Aanii Ezhi-Gii-Kinomaageying Anishinaabemowin: A History of Anishinaabe Curriculum   little crow 1

 

Dakota Wicohan Teacher Apprentices (Dakota Focus)   little crow2

 

Leonard and Mary Moose (Ojibwe Focus) wabasha 1

 

Jenn Hall, Kevin Roach (All Focus) Byki Teaching from Conversation to Teach for Speaking. 7000 Byki/courseware show and Q&A"    Wabasha 2

 

 

 Kendall King (All Focus) Why interaction matters: Task-Based Activities and Negotiation for Meaning as Drivers of Language Learning   grand ballroom

 

  Gabe Desrosiers (Ojibwe Focus) Singing and Drumming    Shakopee

 

Dennis Jones (Ojibwe Focus) Daga Anishinaabemodaa Curriculum    Mahkato

 

                          6pm   Dinner        Ballroom

 

                          7pm  Honoring of Elders, followed by evening entertainment        Ballroom

 

 

Tuesday                 

9/24/2013                7:30-8:30    Breakfast         Ballroom

 

8:30  Blessing and Opening; Obizaan-blessing, Drum group-Pipestone, Welcome   Ballroom  

 

9:00-9:30 am    Keynote    Dr. Eric Jolly    Ballroom

 

9:40 Honor of Grotto Board; Drum group-Pipestone      Ballroom

 

10:15-10:30    Break        

 

10:30-12:15    Breakout sessions I   

 

John Nichols, Nora Livesay, and Michael Sullivan (Ojibwe focus): Using the Ojibwe People's Dictionary

(limit 15)   wabasha 1

 

Dr. Erich Longie (Dakota and Ojibwe Focus) Using Digital Gaming to Incorporate Culture into the Classroom.     wabasha 2

 

Joe Bendickson (Dakota Focus) Language Camps     little crow 1

 

Lee Staples (with Chato Gonzales)  (Ojibwe Focus): Guide to Spiritual Growth    little crow 2

 

Annette Lee, William Wilson, Carl Gawboy, Jim Rock Native Skywatchers -Ojibwe Giizhig Anung Masinaaigan & Makoce Wicanhpi Wowapi - Ojibwe & Dakota Sky Star Maps (Dakota and Ojibwe Focus)     Ballroom

 

Martha Bigelow (All Focus) Myths about teaching languages: Q and A with a language teacher educator  (10:30-11:30)     mahkato

 

Elder Conversations     shakopee

 

12:15-1:15    Lunch    Niigaane Presentation    Ballroom

 

1:15-2:15  Dakota Wicohan documentary     Ballroom

 

2:15-3:15    Breakout sessions II

 

Continuation of Dakota Wicohan Documentary discussion after film    Ballroom

 

Scott DeMuth (Dakota Focus) Akicita Teca: Participatory Research in Documenting and Learning Indigenous Language      little crow1

 

Jennifer Hall (Miskobinesiik) (All Focus) Materials Project Website Launch   little crow 2

 

Tom Delany and Dezmond Juan: (All focus) Native Youth Language Project: Youth Leadership and Online Technology for Language Revitalization.     wabasha 1

 

Leslie Harper: (All Focus) Measuring Outcomes    wabasha2

 

Elder Conversations    Shakopee

 

3:15-3:30    Break        

 

3:30-4:00    Plenary, group discussion/question period      Ballroom

 

4:00-4:30     Symposium survey hand-in, prizes awarded   Ballroom

 

4:30-5:00    Closing remarks   Ballroom