On the National Language

A 2024 Anthem Awards winner for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Awareness & Media category)

Through art photography and prose, this book addresses the fragility, beauty, and cultural value of preserving endangered languages, particularly Indigenous languages, at a time when Indigenous and diversity issues are at the forefront of our national conversations.

In a groundbreaking project turned into a national touring exhibition,endangered-language speaker, poet, and photojournalist B. A. Van Siseworked with endangered-language speakers, learners, and revitalizersacross three years and an entire continent to showcase some of thenatural beauties of their languages and lands, highlighting, inparticular, American diversity and its many Indigenouscommunities.

Augmented by nine contributors from diverse culturalgroups, On the National Language is a journey into both the challengesand opportunities faced by revitalization efforts, as well as atestament to the beauty and poetry of these many languages themselves.[AuthorName]By B. A. Van Sise and Contributions by Crisosto Apache, DeLanna Studi, and dg okpik[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]B. A. Van Sise is an author and photographic artist focused on the intersection between language and the visual image. He is the author of two previous monographs: Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry and Invited to Life: After the Holocaust. He is a New York State Council on the Arts fellow, a two-time PX3 award winner, winner of the Lascaux Prize for Nonfiction, and an IPPY gold medalist.[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]74 color images[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]The Poetry of Americas Endangered Tongues[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]74 color images[/ColorPattern]