Graphic Novels: Documenting and Exploring Indigenous Languages and Cultures (2022-04)

Abstract

Two separate events. The ArtiVist: a personal journey to loving my language and culture again, presented by Sandjock Likinè, Founder of Language Attitude and graphic novelist. This presentation promotes Indigenous communities [sic] efforts to reclaim, document, revitalize and preserve their languages and cultures. Discussion will center around what it means to be a Bàsàa and the presenter's creation of Reclaiming Roots, a multilingual graphic novel that resulted from becoming a consumer and producer of culture. Our Stories Carried Us Here: Developing Awareness of My Embodied Brain, presented by students in UMD Education course - Brain Developments and Relationships. This interactive talk explores brain development by illustrating our capacity to deepen our awareness. Image theater will be enacted to illustrate critical life moments of the storytellers in Green Card Voices graphic novel anthology "Our Stories Carried Us Here" to explain brain development.