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Melpetkwe is Secwépemc from Adams Lake Band and a PhD candidate in the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia. She currently works at the University of British Columbia Okanagan as the Community Liaison and Instructor Coordinator for the Bachelor of Secwépemc Language Fluency program. She also serves as Chair of the R Stselxméms R Secwépemc Institute. Her research and life’s work center on Secwépemc futurity and supporting Secwépemc communities to thrive through language and culture.
This workshop examines how language practitioners, learners, and educators activate futurity with a particular focus on historical and contemporary initiatives that support language revitalization efforts. Doctoral candidate Melpetkwe Matthew builds on Harjo (2019) and Jojola (2013) theorizations of futurity and a Seven Generations Model, to examine intergenerational connections and kinship and how people are continually dreaming, imagining and activating the desires of their ancestors, contemporary kin, and tellqelmúcw, the people to come. Learn how futurity can be used as a tool to examine what are we doing in our current reality to support and carry out the work of our ancestors. Building from the strengths of language revitalization movements globally, the session will share strategies and ideas utilized by immersion K-12 schooling, earlychildhood language nests, post-secondary education and land-based research to transform the language landscape.
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