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Apr 30 2025

Yarrabil: Finding Spiritual Connection and Revitalizing Language in First Nations Songs

By Chang Liu

WORDS Ella Woods and Faith Baisden | IMAGES Belinda Hoare The intense spiritual connection that First Nations songs inspire is helping revitalize First Peoples’ languages in Australia. …

Mar 31 2025

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Participatory Video: Indigenous Communities Are Using a Modern Tool to Revitalize Ancestral Ways

By Chang Liu

Participatory video helps restore Indigenous communities’ links to — and pride in — their ancestral languages, traditions, and knowledge. Tingatinga and Magella (left to right) review footage shot during their…

Nov 21 2024

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A Journey of Decolonization

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A student embarks on a quest to learn about and reconnect with her Khasi heritage.

Aug 22 2023

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The Rohingya Refugees: Language and Our Ethical Responsibility

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A young volunteer reflects on the rights of refugees and the responsibilities of host countries.

Sep 07 2022

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Relatives of the Deep

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A respected Elder shares important teachings that are intrinsic to his people’s language and way of life.

Aug 16 2022

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No Native Bones

By Akshara Sangiorgio

A young Ghanaian muses about his Indigenous identity, traditional values, and biocultural diversity.

Aug 17 2021

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Yamani: Voices of an Ancient Land

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Faith Baisden, Thomas Dick, Carolyn Barker, and Kristina Kelman Leonora Adidi, Faith Baisden, and Joy Bonner on Yugambeh Country in 2014, after the song gathering at which the project was…

Jul 08 2021

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Learning to Write Our Native Language: The Nepalbhasa Ranjana Script of Nepal

By Akshara Sangiorgio

WORDS Manju Maharjan and Yuvash Vaidya IMAGES Sheetal Vaidya and Shashank Shrestha Pavitra Kasaa, a member of the Institute of Nepal Epigraphy, and the author, Manju Maharjan, discussing a Kutakshar…

Jul 01 2021

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Quarantine as Ceremony: COVID-19 as an Opportunity to Quietly Rebel against the Dominant Langscape

By Akshara Sangiorgio

WORDS AND IMAGES Severn Cullis-Suzuki The Haida people know the cost of disease. They have lived on Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the west coast of Canada, for the past…

Jul 22 2020

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Quarantine as Ceremony: COVID-19 as an Opportunity to Quietly Rebel against the Dominant Langscape

By Akshara Sangiorgio

Severn Cullis-Suzuki The Haida people know the cost of disease. They have lived in Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the west coast of Canada, for the past 14,000 years. In…

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Yarrabil: Finding Spiritual Connection and Revitalizing Language in First Nations Songs

Participatory Video: Indigenous Communities Are Using a Modern Tool to Revitalize Ancestral Ways

A Journey of Decolonization

The Rohingya Refugees: Language and Our Ethical Responsibility

Relatives of the Deep

No Native Bones

Yamani: Voices of an Ancient Land

Learning to Write Our Native Language: The Nepalbhasa Ranjana Script of Nepal

Quarantine as Ceremony: COVID-19 as an Opportunity to Quietly Rebel against the Dominant Langscape

Quarantine as Ceremony: COVID-19 as an Opportunity to Quietly Rebel against the Dominant Langscape

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