The documentary film project Rising Voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi, being produced by the LLC sister organization, The Language Conservancy, has been awarded a grant from the Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (NAPT). The grant is for the film’s research and development phase, and allows us to bring Florentine Films/Hott Productions out to Lakota Country this spring. The Film project has also been supported by the Dakota Indian Foundation.
NAPT is a non-profit professional organization for Native Americans in all areas of media production and distribution: radio, television, film, and online.
New Website for Mother Tongues
Native American subjects popped up on television all through November, which was Native American Heritage Month. One PBS program we had to catch was We Still Live Here, a documentary about the efforts of the Wampanoag tribes of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to revive their language even though no one has spoken it in more than a century. Assistant Producer on that project is Jen Weston, a Hunkpapa Lakota who has attended Brown University, worked for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and now is a Program Officer for Endangered Languages at Cultural Survival, Inc. Jen is also Associate Producer for Rising Voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi.
The Mother Tongues website Jen helped create is a must visit!
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