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AI TECHNOLOGIES
We are working with IndigiGenius to help Chief Isku Kua save the Yawanawa language from extinction.
IndigiGenius is led by computer scientists and language activists Michael Running Wolf (Northern Cheyenne / Lakota / Blackfeet) and Caroline Running Wolf (Old Coyote / Crow Nation).
After working for years as an engineer on Amazon’s ‘Alexa’, Michael Running Wolf created a language reclamation process for endangered Indigenous languages.
Using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the same technology empowering Amazon's Alexa, and a two year long language data collection process, the team builds AI voice technology to amplify language learning.
Chief Isku Kua Yawanawa
Chief of New Hope Village
Board Member of Children of the Rainforest
Leader of Isku Vakehuhu
Michael Running Wolf (Northern Cheyenne / Lakota / Blackfeet)
LANGUAGE
REVITALIZATION
Indigenous language hold vital knowledge of the rainforest. Language is a vessel for intimate relationship with the biodiversity of the Amazon. Language is the heart of culture. Without its language communities lose their identity as a steward of the rainforest.
After nearly a century of cultural genocide and slavery, the Yawanawa are reclaiming their language.
Less than 3% of the population speak Yawanawa fluently and it's vital that the youth learn their language and systems are built to preserve this knowledge kept alive by so few. Indigenous AI is helping protect the Yawanawa language for future generations.
LANGUAGE
REVITALIZATION
Indigenous language hold vital knowledge of the rainforest. Language is a vessel for intimate relationship with the biodiversity of the Amazon. Language is the heart of culture. Without its language communities lose their identity as a steward of the rainforest.
After nearly a century of cultural genocide and slavery, the Yawanawa are reclaiming their language.
Less than 3% of the population speak Yawanawa fluently and it's vital that the youth learn their language and systems are built to preserve this knowledge kept alive by so few. Indigenous AI is helping protect the Yawanawa language for future generations.
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Our vision is to save our language from disappearing. our school isku vakehuhu is reviving ancestral traditions, passing down our language and restoring dignity in our identity
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Isku Kua Yawanawa
Chief of New Hope Village
Board Member of Children of the Rainforest
Leader of Isku Vakehuhu
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Our vision is
to save our language from disappearing
our school isku vakehuhu is reviving ancestral traditions, passing down our language and restoring dignity in our identity
“
Isku Kua Yawanawa
Chief of New Hope Village
Board Member of Children of the Rainforest
Leader of Isku Vakehuhu
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