Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language

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Documentary Follows Native Students Learning and Preserving Tewa Language
By Vincent Schilling
August 14, 2012

In November 2009, Santa Fe Preparatory School in Santa Fe, New Mexico sent out a newsletter announcing a self-study curriculum in which Native teenagers would study the Tewa language with the help of a mentor. When producer/director Aimée Broustra heard about it she decided to make a documentary.

In the film, the Native youth, who are all Tewa, spend hours learning the Tewa language with mentor Laura Kaye Eagles, a seventh grade literature teacher at Santa Fe Prep. The pilot program is administered with the Indigenous Language Institute to help revitalize Native languages. The students get language credit for studying Tewa, as opposed to studying French or Spanish.

The Young Ancestors was recently named an official selection of the 2012 White Sands International Film Festival being held August 22 to 26.

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Learn more about the film at http://theyoungancestors.com/TheYoungAncestors/Home.html