Bridging the gap # 14: Question for Amy Juan, a Tohono O'odham cultural activist...

Ellen Jones, a British literary translator from Spanish to English, has a question for Amy Juan, a Tohono O'odham cultural activist. ••• Amy R. Juan comes from the communities of Comobabi, Ali Cukson, and Wecij Oidag on the Tohono O’odham Nation. Raised by her grandmothers, Amy was instilled with the knowledge of plants by her grandmothers, learning how to gather and use traditional medicines and harvest, process and cook traditional foods. Amy is a former Culture Teacher at Baboquivari High School, where she took the classroom outside and began to integrate wild food harvesting and planting with her students. As a cultural activist, Amy has traveled the world and attended the 2022 COP 27 UN Climate Change Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, advocating for Indigenous Peoples voices in climate change adaptation strategy. She is part of the City of Tucson Climate Action Steering Committee. In June of 2022 Amy joined the San Xavier Cooperative Farm, south of Tucson, as the Administration Manager where she is working diligently at strengthening O’odham foodways and the Tohono O’odham Himdag, or Way of Life, meant to ensure that decisions in the farm’s rehabilitation project are consistent with the culture. ••• https://youtu.be/0kFLB5rSgqk https://resilience.arizona.edu/person/amy-juan https://www.sanxaviercoop.org/ ••• Ellen Jones is a British literary translator from Spanish to English, an editor, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. One of her most recent books, ‘Language in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas', is out now from Columbia University Press. ••• https://youtu.be/jFjb0P8eDpg Twitter: @ellen_c_jones https://www.ellencjones.com/ ••• In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… ••• https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK&si=PXlj3dKx9MZ4Bc4E ••• Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, November 2023 At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken… It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’… --- Radio Aula Mundi Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Centerhttps://radioaulamundi.bandcamp.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-aula-mundi/id1584156605https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixeckerSpotifyYouTube https://castbox.fm/channel/Let's-talk-about-it%2C-anywhere-in-the-world...-id4725033?country=usBreakerPlayer FMFacebook https://www.paypal.me/radioaulamundihttps://offtherecord.pe/ (Periodismo de Verdad)