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Youth Lunch & Learn | Indigenous Language Reclamation with Aiyana Twigg
20 September @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Youth, parents, professionals! Join us on Sunday morning for a very special interactive workshop with Aiyana Twigg. While we encourage youth and caregivers to attend, all people are now welcome regardless of whether you have a youth in your life!
The workshop would explore the relationship between language, identity, culture, land, and belonging, using Ktunaxa language and Aiyana’s own experiences as a language learner and researcher as an entry point.
Rather than a traditional presentation, participants will work together through a combination of storytelling, interactive language activities, small-group discussion, videos, and a collaborative creative project.
Aiyana Kⱡawat̓inak Paⱡki· Sa’tahtaki Twigg is a Ktunaxa and Blackfoot scholar, PhD student, keynote speaker, language researcher, and Indigenous youth advocate from yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡiʔit within ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa (Ktunaxa territory). She is a Ktunaxa citizen on her mother’s side and a registered member of the Kainai (Blood Tribe) on her father’s side. Her work focuses on Indigenous language revitalization, the Ktunaxa language, Indigenous education, language documentation, writing systems, literacy, land-based pedagogy, pronunciation, digital media, and youth engagement.
A catered lunch will be provided.
Saturday, September 20 Doors @ 12:30 PM
Best Western Hotel Fernie 1622 7 Ave