National Alliance to Save Native Languages

AGENDA

NATIONAL NATIVE LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION SUMMIT

JULY 13^TH AND 14^TH

WASHINGTON DC

(Day 1)

July 13^th United States Senate Dirksen Building Room 138

                         8:45am Opening prayer, welcome Remarks Ryan Wilson

                         9:30am Immersion School Panel: Leslie Harper, Dr. Gloria Sly, Pila Wilson

                        10:30am  Key Note Address Colin Kippen Executive Director Native Hawaiian Education Council “Culture and language Based Education and Native identity”

                        11:15am White House Working Group Discussion on proposed Native Languages Executive Order Suzan Harjo, Morning Star Institute

11:35am  Resource Development with federal and Private support.  Jenifer Westin, Cultural Survival.

12:00 noon break for lunch

                        12:30pm Lunch with NMAI Director Kevin Gover at National Museum of the American Indians (pay on your own).

July 13^th United States Department of Education LBJ Building Auditorium

                        2:15pm Pila Wilson “Native Hawaiians, Native Americans 20 years after passage of the Native  American Languages Act”.

                        2:45pm Remarks Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (Invited)

                        3:00pm Special Message to the Administration and Congress, Ryan Wilson “Native Languages and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act”.

                        3:45pm  Panel: Administration Views on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Native Languages:  Charlie Rose (DoE), Steve Robinson (Whitehouse), Don Yu (DoE), Wizipan Garriot, Senior Policy Advisor BIA, Janelle Leonard (Director of Office of Indian Education)

                        4:30pm  Tribal Education Agencies/Departments and Native Language Development Amy Bowers Native American Rights Fund, Tribal Education Departments National Assembly

                        5:30-8:30pm Senate Dirksen Room 626, Reception for Language Advocates, Indian Educators, and Tribal Leaders hosted by United South and Eastern Tribes, National Congress of American Indians, and National Alliance to Save Native Languages.  Special honoring for Colin Kippen new Executive Director National Indian Education Association.

(Day2)

July 14^th U.S. Senate Dirksen Building Room 628, Indian Affairs Hearing RM

         Opening remarks  Ryan Wilson, Hill visits overview

                        8:45am House Education Committee and Native American Caucus Staff provide briefing on ESEA reauthorization and Native language provisions in preliminary ESEA drafts. Paxton Meyers and Lillian Pace, from Chairman Dale Kildee’s office/committee

                        9:05am Senator Tom Udall New Mexico (original co-sponsor of Esther Martinez Native       American Preservation Act of 2006).

                        Chairman Byron Dorgan, North Dakota Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

                        Senator Lisa Murkowski, Alaska

                        Senator Tim Johnson, South Dakota

                        Senator John Thune, South Dakota

                        Senator John Tester, Montana

                        Representative Tom Cole, Oklahoma

                        Representative Patrick Kennedy, Rhode Island

                        12:00pm Hill Visits Summit Delegates engage with Members of Congress and Staff