# Living Languages: Preservation & Reclamation of Indigenous Languages

Gabriela Peréz Báez discusses surmounting the challenges of linguistic and cultural revitalization. The Smithsonian Institution's Recovering Voices initiative provides source communities access to collections in federal cultural agencies, notably those at the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, to foster community-based research for the purpose of language, culture and knowledge revitalization. The model enables collections-based research in a federal repository setting as well as collections-based research in the field.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- By: Pérez Báez, Gabriela
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690367/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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