Blog ‹ Native Youth Leadership Alliance. This past October I attended the Indigenous Language Institute Symposium 2013.The most impactful part of this experience was seeing how various tribal communities were keeping their indigenous language alive.
I saw they were using the old way of teaching (immersion) and new ways utilizing western technology through media and various teaching techniques. Gary ʺLitefootʺ Davis (Cherokee) was the keynote speaker and one thing he mentioned that I thought was very profound was, ʺwe need to stop surviving and start living our own cultural ways.ʺ What I took from this statement was that we should... 13 Dec 2013 | Posted by NYLA | 0 Comment. Last October, people gathered to share and learn about the wondrous world of plant people by way of, the Dandelion Seed Conference, in Olympia, WA. The event was filled with many seasoned experts sharing a wide array of knowledge. TRIBAL_enlightenment. Chance Rush. LeAndra Bitsie.