Abstract This paper demonstrates that historical trauma, healing, and wellbeing require attention in Indigenous language cultivation revitalization. While trauma affects peoples across the spectrum of knowledge use, little is written about ways it can be addressed teaching, learning, development—the cultivation— languages. For educators, how we address our may one most critical factors affectin...

The post-industrial cities of America are rife with significant cultural heritage that contribute to the national historic narrative. Many of these cities have experienced issues associated with disinvestment and population loss stemming from changing globalizing economic forces beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, jeopardizing their urban cultural heritage as these cities face dec...

This paper presents a research result of promoting and evaluating a regional revitalization project based on the WSR system methodology. The paper introduces a regional revitalization project in Japan, and it explains the promotion and evaluation of the regional revitalization project by the WSR system methodology. From this research, the authors show that the WSR system methodology is useful i...

This paper gives a presentation of the condition of an endangered language located on the southern part of the Italian peninsula, spoken by a small community of transplanted Slavic population who fled the Eastern Adriatic coast during the Turkish invasion of the Balkan peninsula and have lived in complete isolation from related Slavic languages for five centuries surrounded by a majority of Ita...

Revitalizing mother tongue and culture is a priority for the Nasa Colombian native people [9, 2]. Since 1970 they are running processes to revert the consequences of the persecution and punishment that the use of Nasa Yuwe, the Nasa language, suffered during earlier periods of their history. This text briefly describes a project that aims to support such revitalization efforts through Human-Com...

Citation: Ozbay G, Chintapenta LK, Cannon A and Hannum K (2017) Effects of Microbial and Heavy Metal Contaminants on Environmental/Ecological Health and Revitalization of Coastal Ecosystems in Delaware Bay. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:26. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00026 Effects of Microbial and Heavy Metal Contaminants on Environmental/Ecological Health and Revitalization of Coastal Ecosystems in Dela...