Native American activist, environmentalist and writer Winona LaDuke spoke today at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study about biocultural diversity, language, and environmental endangerment. Joining her for a panel discussion were writer. K. David Harrison, 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 and linguist, anthropologist and ethnobiologist Luisa Maffi who is cofounder and director of Terralingua. Learn more about the program here.
