The younger people also think 'I'm fine if I can speak Mandarin and English; learning indigenous languages doesn't help me increase my competitiveness'".
Members of secret societies often spoke in code or ancient languages not easily understood by the masses, similarly many prisoners have learned indigenous or uncommon languages, including sign language, back-slang, or write letters in code to carry out clandestine activities.
Engagement in research by Cancer Council staff had provided additional benefits, such as resources and opportunities to work with Indigenous people and learn about Indigenous cancer issues, including factors that impede their participation in screening, cancer treatment and follow up.
So we learn that indigenous Southern California cultures regularly cleared undergrowth and grew food in small plots, but that 18th-century Spanish missions transformed agriculture.
Guests play with the kids, eat dinner with the family, learn the indigenous lingo, get shown around the village and see a weaving demonstration, all for $31.
In a world dominated by science, I think we have something to learn from Indigenous peoples, but maybe also from those people labelled white trash or rednecks: dingo trappers, horse people, station workers on vast properties.
They dress in uncool hiking clothes and pack up uncool backpacks and buses with uncool food and uncool Bibles and venture way the heck into the jungle where they and this is the subject of The Tailenders learn thorny indigenous languages so they can actually talk with people who have never heard of America, capitalism, jihad, McWorld or Jesus Christ.
We can learn from indigenous design, and apply biological principles for sustainable outcomes.
But what you can learn from indigenous people is looking at ice as a very dynamic body.
I sat down to chat with him about what scientists could learn from indigenous perspectives of climate change.
