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| Ground Floor, Hall 3 |
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In Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the north-west coast of Canada, and on Prince of Wales Island (Alaska), numerous people are working tirelessly to revitalise the Haida language and forge alternative paths into the future.
In the 19th century, the colonial government’s attempts to eradicate First Nations’ cultures were multi-faceted: family ties were broken, cultural and political systems were banned and languages were prohibited.
But X̱aad kil / X̱aayda Kil (the Haida language) will not die out, because there are still fluent and semi-fluent speakers and even silent speakers – people who understand the language but hardly speak it themselves. All available means are being used to support them, to adapt the language to today’s needs and to pass it on to future generations.
Participants
Sabrina N’Diaye studied ethnology and political science. She learnt the craft of journalism at ZDF, after which she worked for SWR and ARTE. She has been with RBB since 2016, where she presents the rbb24 Spätnachrichten and realizes longer documentaries as an author.
Monika Zessnik is Curator for American Ethnology at the Ethnological Museum Berlin.