Leanne Hinton’s Flutes of Fire • Culture Keeping & Language Revitalization

Originally published in 1994, Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages, Revised and Updated is an approachable, entertaining, and informative classic on Native culture-keeping, an introduction to Native California languages that appears now in a newly expanded edition spotlighting 25 years of intervening linguistic activism keeping Indigenous voice, viewpoint, and tradition alive.

Leanne will be joined by fellow AICLS board memberMatthew Vestuto who serves as the language program coordinator for the Barbareño/Ventureño Band of Mission Indians, the director of the Tšumaš Transcription Project, a local Chumash tribal leader, and the president of the Lulapin Chumash Foundation. There to honor Leanne will be Vestuto’s ever-growing mitsqanaqan̓ (Ventureño Chumash) speaking community.

Located at Bart’s Books, 302 West Matilija Street Ojai, CA 93023

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leanne-hintons-flutes-of-fire-culture-keeping-language-revitalization-tickets-436236273437