Biocultural Diversity, Language, and Environmental Endangerment - Panel discussion with Winona LaDuke, Luisa Maffi, and K. David Harrison March 29, 2012

Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist, environmentalist, and writer. K. David Harrison is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Swarthmore University and author of The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages. Linguist, anthropologist, and ethnobiologist Luisa Maffi is cofounder and director of Terralingua, an international non-governmental organization founded in 1996 by a group of committed individuals from different backgrounds who shared a fundamental set of beliefs in biocultural diversity. Panel will be chaired by Mary Hermes, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota.

Part of the University Symposium on Abundance & Scarcity.

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