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You and a friend can join Inée Slaughter for lunch at Seasons Rotisserie and Grill in Albuquerque and learn more about this amazing non-profit organization here in our community.

Inée Yang Slaughter, Executive Director, has been with the Indigenous Language Institute since 1995. She has a BA in French Literature from the University of California Berkeley and an Associate Degree in Interior and Graphic Design from UCLA. Of Korean heritage born and raised in Japan, she is fluent in Japanese, Korean, English and has working knowledge of French. Before moving to Santa Fe, Inée was at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles as Special Projects Coordinator for international cultural heritage conservation projects and Assistant to the Director managing the Director’s office. Inée brings to ILI 25 years of non-profit management experience, lifetime work in international cultural exchange, foreign language instruction and interpretation.

Our Mission

The Indigenous Language Institute provides vital language related services to Native communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom and values are passed on to future generations in their original languages.

Guiding Philosophy

ILI’s guiding philosophy is to “help create speakers” of endangered indigenous languages while we still have speakers left.

This work is URGENT. Collectively we must work diligently with haste within a ten-year window, careful not to duplicate efforts, to turn the tide of language decline so that indigenous languages become a vibrant component of everyday life in Indian communities.

What We Do

ILI Researches, Teaches and Shares information and tools to empower Native communities to make their languages SEEN and HEARD everywhere and by everyone.

ILI’s tools and training help people create their own Native language materials to develop textbooks, teaching aids, films, digital stories, as well as flyers, brochures, posters, toys, and signage.

Languagegeek© customized keyboard layouts and fonts enable any indigenous language to live on computers and the internet. Sending e-mails, building web-pages, and desktop publishing are all available for all indigenous languages.

ILI works with all tribes and nations to complement and enhance their existing language programs.

Please click on the link below for more information.

Item Special Note

Lunch must be arranged by the winning bidder at a mutually agreeable time by June 1, 2014. Lunch includes the meal, but not alcohol or gratuity.

$5 per shipping address for all gift certificates and tickets unless the bidder chooses pick up options listed in your winning bid confirmation at the close of the auction. This is to cover priority mail and delivery confirmation.