Common struggles, many solutions
Similar to our Hawaiian Education Committee, the Norwegian educator union, UEN, has formed their own Sámi Committee to address language, identity, belonging, and what futures their children are allowed to imagine.
In Mexico, their educator union, SNTE, is doing their own work with the government and other entities to preserve languages and cultures, promote respect and inclusion, uplift cultural diversity as a social asset, and recognize that indigenous peoples are a living present and a fundamental part of society. With the help of UNESCO, they have published a specialized pedagogical toolkit to strengthen bilingual and bicultural teaching practices in their indigenous schools.
The Faroe Islands are a small set of islands to the north of the United Kingdom and halfway between Norway and Iceland and are also an autonomous territory of Denmark. To address the declining use of Faroese, the Faroese Teachers’ Union, with governmental support, created their own non-profit publishing company. Since 1956, the company has published approximately 70 books in Faroese and distributes them both locally and globally for those who request them. They also publish two Faroese language magazines distributed seven times a year, one for younger students through the third grade and another for older students through the seventh grade.