First Festival and Meeting of Indigenous Languages in Baja California

Two weeks ago, the days 11th and 12th of October, I assisted to the event of First Festival and Meeting of Indigenous Languages in Baja California, here in Ensenada in the Riviera Cultural Center. The reason of this meeting was to talk about and discuss in a forum three main topics: To revitalize and fortify the Indigenous Languages in B.C., Situation of Indigenous Languages Rights and Instruments and Necessary Legal Rules for the Development of the Indigenous People.    There were formed several groups of talking, where I had the opportunity to participate in the first topic in a little group of six people. There were people from Tijuana, students from the National Pedagogic University, also an Elementary Bilingual School Teacher, a Psychologist and an Autonomous University of Baja California teacher from our locality. We discussed two questions: “Why revitalize, fortify, preserve and develop the native languages?” And “How revitalize, fortify, preserve and develop the native languages?” The answers were  revitalize, fortify, preserve and develop the native languages because it is our culture and we cannot lost our traditions. The ways to develop were to make that more people talk in native languages and try to spread the language with help of various kind of media like magazines, radio and television. Also teach the language in the schools and produce literature.  It was very interesting to hear the different points of view of each participant. .