Hello everyone!

In today’s post, I’ll be sharing my experience with you regarding the CoLang 2024 conference that took place in Arizona.

For almost the whole month of June, I tried to not melt, made some great connections, sweated a lot, took a lot of great workshop classes, and enjoyed this year’s practicum session more than the last one.

CoLang 2024 was an equal collaboration between the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) and Arizona State University, making it the first CoLang of its kind in terms of how it was organized and planned.

There were many workshop classes offered, though I took and enjoyed the following:

Tell Your Story: Bringing Papua New Guinean Indigenous Knowledge into Mainstream Classes

Documenting Language, Culture & Cognition

Writing Systems

Documenting Meaning in Language

Mobilizing Community Language Revitalization

Nankak Gwanzhih: Building Reclamation Programs Across Languages

Survey Methods

Revitalizing Indigenous traditions

This year, three options were offered for the practicum session. I chose to enroll in the Piipaash option, which I found very enriching and rewarding.

The next CoLang will be hosted at the University of Nevada Reno, and I can’t wait!