
WORDS OF THE PEOPLE SEEKS TO NORMALIZE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE CREATIVE PRODUCTION.
MISSION Words of the People supports the growth of Indigenous language creatives through community-led programming and opportunities that foster artistic production, community leadership, and land-based language practices.
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE CREATIVE WRITING
WTP hosts Indigenous Language Creative Writing Workshops as well as Rematriation Workshops in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
REMATRIATION
Land-connected women have worked to define Rematriation, which is to “return the sacred to the mother.” Rematriation offers a means of reconnecting with the land and learning new and ancestral ways of learning from and protecting it.
FACILITATION
WTP facilitates gatherings in Tulsa, supporting indigenous language creators as they develop their artworks and ability to work with their ancestral Indigenous languages through workshops.
PROVIDING SUPPORT
Our workshops offer support for the Land Back movement and provide resources on self-care that support ancestral reconnection practices, such as Indigenous language learning.

Vision
The vision of Words of the People is to empower Indigenous communities to normalize Indigenous language creative production as both an artistic practice and a movement that supports rematriation—bridging art, literature, and Indigenous language preservation.

INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS from tribal communities practice, preserve, and support language revitalization through storytelling and art works. Words of the People has fellowships to support them.
Non-Native creators and persons looking at ancestral lands are invited to join Rematriation workshops alongside indigenous people.

ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS will receive the gift of growing domains of use and vitality for Indigenous languages, which empower land protection. The purpose of creating and publishing in indigenous languages is to support robust survivance of Indigenous languages. Rematriation helps heal ancestral colonization and supports language learning and land protection.

ANCESTORS have carried the languages which living Native storytellers stand to inherit and use to inspire the future of creating. Works shared in indigenous languages center tribal cultures and communities. Supporting non-Native people in their own Rematriation promotes anti-appropriative learning and helps educate the public on land.
Resources
From Dr. Phillip Cash Cash’s craft talk: https://theways.org.
The Philbrook Museum of Art offers Words of the People attendees the opportunity to peruse their archives, which contain correspondence by and between various artists. To take advantage of this, please go to the Philbrook and ask for Christina Burke, who will show you to the archives.
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