Language and Wellness: Health Benefits from Indigenous Language Use

Alice Taff

Doug Whalen

This course provides an overview of evidence connecting ancestral language use to better health. This link is moderately well attested in the published literature, but those involved in language revitalization take it as a given. The goal of the workshop is to give participants focused time to consider the issue of ancestral language use/learning and its connection to physical wellness; they can then design and implement their own projects based on the literature in this field, their workshop experience in project design, their knowledge about credible outcomes, and potential funding sources.