In a lead up to Native American month in May, there have been numerous articles focusing on Indigenous issues.

Indian Country Today featured an article last week on Native language loss and the desparate measures needed to correct the situation.

The Observer reported an interesting merger of popular culture and language, Walpole Island First Nation kids will have an opportunity to go to a hockey camp in Ojibwe. (The Observer, Sarnia, ON)

Cultural Survival and the National Alliance to Save Native Languages are organizing the National Native Language Revitalization Summit in Washington D.C. May 11-13. Cultural Survival is a non-profit helping indigenous groups around the world fight for their rights to be indigenous on their own term and their own land.

The conference language revitalization conference includes a training session on finding tribal language materials in the National Anthropological Archives, a workshop on developing grant proposals to sustain grassroots language programs, and a chance to lobby lawmakers for increasing support for Native language programs through the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act.