Session One: Innovation in Language
"Disrupting Spaces to Perpetuate and Sustain the Navajo Language" Panelists: Cynthia Benally, Ph.D., University of Utah; Amelia A. Black, Diné College; Daniel Piper, Ph.D.,Utah State University; Clara Bedonie, Murray City School District
This presentation will focus on negotiating and navigating educational policies to create spaces for Navajo language learning and use in varying educational institutions. The presenters narrate different Diné populations in urban and ancestral areas are creating interpreting existing policies to ensure sustaining and revitalizing our language.