Diamano Coura dance company is performing in the SF Internat l Arts Fest on June 17 at the Brava Theater sfbayview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfbayview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, by Piet Mondrian, 1935. Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman.
Lapham’s Quarterly is running a series on the history of best sellers, exploring the circumstances that might inspire thousands to gravitate toward the same book and revisiting well-loved works from the past that, due to a variety of circumstances, vanished from the conversation after they peaked on the charts.
To read more about the project and explore the other entries in the series, click here.
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Viennese enjoyed reading about brothels almost as much as they enjoyed visiting them. The German novelist Margarete Böhme’s 1905 best seller
The Pandemic Has Put Native Languages At Risk of Extinction What s Being Done To Save Them? kalw.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kalw.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
53:07
On this edition of Your Call, we re discussing how COVID is affecting Native communities and putting Native languages at risk. Fewer than 120 Native American languages remain. In 2020, there were only 230 native Dakota and Lakota speakers on the Standing Rock Reservation. Their average age is 70.
Elders and those who are fluent Native language speakers are being prioritized for vaccinations, but many say we are running out of time. What’s being done to preserve and revitalize these languages?
Guests:
Dr. Neyooxet Greymorning, political anthropologist, professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Native American Studies at the University of Montana, developer of the Accelerated Second Language Acquisition, and editor of