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Dec 18, 2016
"We are the meeting point of our ancestors and descendants. The track leading from the past, and the road heading off into the future, are joined, here and now, with us." --Anthony Murphy
Inside the Rush to Preserve Indigenous Languages
A good puppet has to be liked, so Binnabannas was given a pair of friendly brown eyes, a set of uneven blue antlers, and leather shoes with red trim and curled toes reminiscent of samiske komagers, the traditional reindeer skin shoes worn by the Sami, the indigenous people of Northern Europe...Binnabannas's main goal is to keep the Sami language alive in the next generation, but the character may also have a more subversive social role: demonstrating that indigenous culture is alive and growing in a world that has either forgotten or shown open contempt for its original people...Tamie Sue Runningen of NRK Sapmi says, "When [the children] see some of the generalizations and challenges that the Sami people have had in history, or any other indigenous people have had in history, that they'll have a little better understanding of what that is and why some of those fights were important."
BE THE CHANGE
How can we widen our focus to include respect for the wisdom and traditions of indigenous cultures? What can we do to preserve our own culture for the benefit of future generations?
