What is a solidarity economy? A solidarity economy begins with a recognition that some people have more and other people need more and that we can choose to redistribute our resources in a way so that more people have what they need to thrive. Glassburn will talk about the process of working with Resource Generation to develop Indiana’s only voluntary land-tax, the Miami Nation Honor Fund. This is an opportunity to setup a regular payment, what some people call rent, to be paid to the Miami Nation of Indiana in an acknowledgement that when you live, or work, or build a business on Miami land, that wealth accumulation is based on Miami land loss and theft. Learn more by checking out the Miami Nation Honor Fund.

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Beyond the work of gathering over 5000 articles on Indigenous language revitalization and reviewing 4050 articles themselves, I am so proud of the undergraduate research assistants who did the bulk of this work. They learned so much about making a research plan, amending that plan when things don’t go as expected, the surprises that pop-up inevitably when doing research, and how to some how funnel down all that you have learned into a research report.

Join us on January 22nd, the first day of the Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Forum to be the first to learn about the findings of our systematic review of 4050 articles on Indigenous Language Reclamation. The research team is made up of Lead RA Alicia Campbell, and RAs Bella Hebert and Bennett McLeod (Couchiching First Nation) and myself, Ashley Glassburn. We gathered all the literature we could find on Indigenous Language Revitalization and Decolonization to find out what the field has to say about how Indigenous persons learn ancestral languages, how communities define language reclamation success, and case studies that highlight best practices.

“In 2024, non-Indigenous friends of the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana created the Honor Fund in partnership with tribal members. We based the fund on models of Indigenous land tax programs across the country in an effort to repair centuries of harm the Miami people experienced and continue to experience as a result of colonization. The Honor Fund exists to encourage our broader community to support Indigenous land and community preservation. Both financial contributions and land transfers are accepted. 

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If you are going to be at the National Women’s Studies Association in Detroit, I will be presenting on Indigenous Feminisms, gender in Indigenous language revitalization, teaching feminist theory, and using trauma informed practice to design online community spaces.

Ashley Glassburn has been elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a 212-year-old national research library and community of learners dedicated to discovering and sharing a deeper understanding of the American past. Glassburn joins a distinguished roster of more than 1,100 members from forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, and five other countries. Elected for their achievement in academic or public life, AAS members range from scholars, collectors, and librarians to artists, writers, and history enthusiasts.  Since the Society’s founding in 1812, fourteen United States presidents, more than seventy-five Pulitzer Prize winners, scores of Bancroft Prize winners, many Guggenheim fellows, and several MacArthur Award winners have been elected to membership.

Ashley Glassburn and Loyell Bigjohn lead rounds of Paapankamwa iilweeta… (Fox says…) games in Myaamia and Anishinaabemowin at AWE Art Windsor Essex from 5-8p as part of AWE at Night. Indigenous folks get in for free. The evening will include artist and curator talks, feature the exhibit Love Languages, and there will be craft activities for kids - making fox masks to play Paapankamwa iilweeta.

More information is available on: Education News Canada, University of Windsor’s Daily News, AWE Art Windsor Essex.

On Thursday, March 23 at 3pm Ashley Glassburn will discuss her recent work in a lecture entitled “Thinking, Writing, Speaking Myaamia: Language reclamation for life-long learners.”

Glassburn explores why she and her team completely rewrote all their teaching materials in the last two years and are now basing their approach to writing around core language models developed for Augmentative and Alternate Communication practices originally designed for use with adults with severe expressive communication differences. The result is a significantly different approach to teaching Algonquian verbs and grammar that has ramifications beyond Myaamia language circles.

Presented by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the event will be held in room 268, Dillon Hall, and is open to all