Recording Kawaiisu

Following a century of loss, the Kawaiisu people of Central California have held on to their language, one of the few aspects of their culture that remain intact. Now, with only two fluent speakers remaining, Julie Girado Turner has spent the last 16 years documenting the language that lives within her elderly father and aunt so that it may be passed on and learned by others. This film premiered in the fifth issue of Emergence Magazine on "Language" as part of the six-part multimedia story “Language Keepers” which follows four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages. https://emergencemagazine.org/story/language-keepers Subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC08u6dw1kqCRh6__juO8GHg?view_as=subscriber?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Emergence Magazine: Twitter: https://twitter.com/emergence_zine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualEcology/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emergencemagazine Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/emergencemagazine Emergence Magazine is a quarterly online publication featuring innovative stories that explore the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest stories from Emergence directly to your inbox: https://emergencemagazine.org/newsletter/