Andean Aymara

Attending the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Really an excellent event, well-organized, with some great talks and posters.
Yesterday I delievered a paper entitled “Aymara variant revitalization in remote regions in the Andes” which outlines some of my work together with Edwin Banegas Flores and his brother [...]

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OWNAL: Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19 2009, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK
 
The Center for Tribal Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK, announces its 2nd annual Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages. OWNAL focuses on descriptive studies of indigenous languages of the Americas. This weekend workshop takes place at the end of the 37th [...]

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The Regional Learning Project announced the release of another documentary directed by Dr. Sally Thompson (University of Michigan) which seems like it may be interesting, though I’ve yet to see it.
According to the description on the project website:
Tribal languages are disappearing at an alarming rate. This film reviews the history of indigenous language loss, documents [...]

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Meeting Description: 
One of the significant developments in Atlantic historiography over the past few decades has been the quickly expanding knowledge, on the part of historians as well as linguists, of the languages native to the peoples of the Americas. The purpose of the conference is to consider the consequences of this knowledge for significant lines of interpretation of the [...]

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Bad news for an amazing place:
“Heavy rains have damaged Peru’s famed Nazca lines, a top tourist attraction and one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries, reported daily Peru21 on Tuesday.”
PeruvianTimes
Lluvias afectaron ‘La Mano’ en Nasca
“En algunas partes de los dedos de dicha figura se ve una capa arcillosa causada por las precipitaciones. El arqueólogo residente [...]

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