DORENE WIESE LEADS PANEL OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN LEADERS IN CHICAGO DISCUSSING LANGUAGE PRESERVATION AND CULTURE*

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 4, 2011 --

(CHICAGO, IL)— Community Cinema, presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in partnership with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, are excited to present this month’s screening of Anne Makepeace’s We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân, the story of Jessie Little Doe, an intrepid, thirty-something, Wampanoag social worker, who began having recurring visions and dreams: familiar-looking people from another time addressing her in an incomprehensible language. She soon realized they were speaking Wampanoag, a language no one had used for more than a century. Together with her MIT colleagues and the Wampanoag community, Jessie achieved something that had never been done before — bringing an American Indian language back to life after many generations without native speakers. By unlocking the secrets of the Wampanoag language, the community has been able to rediscover their history and culture. Now a new generation of children is breathing life into what was once thought to be a lost language.

WHAT: FREE screening of We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân

Film followed by panel to engage public in a discussion about Native American cultural preservation and the role of language in Native cultures.

WHO: Moderator: Dr. Dorene Wiese (White Earth Ojibwe), President, American Indian Association of Illinois,Director Bear Claw Multimedia

Jolene Aleck (Northern Paiute/Western Shoshone), Coordinator, Title VII Program, Chicago Public Schools

Georgina Roy (M'Chigeeng Ojibwe), Director, Kateri Center of Chicago

Prof. Lenore Grenoble, University of Chicago Department of Linguistics


Presented by Chicago Foundation for Women, American Indian Association of Illinois,
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in partnership with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture,
ITVS and WTTW Channel 11.

WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 26th

2PM - 4PM

For more information, visit: http://www.itvs.org/engagement

WHERE: Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street

in the Claudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd Floor

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Media encouraged to attend.

To see the trailer:
http://www.itvs.org/films/we-still-live-here

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