The National Native Language Revitalization Summit will be held in Washington D.C. May 11-13. Sponsored by Cultural Survival and the National Alliance to Save Native Languages, it will include a workshop with the Potlatch Fund on developing grant proposals to sustain grassroots language programs, a keynote by renowned language immersion school director Darrell Robes Kipp (Blackfeet) of the Piegan Institute, and presentations by numerous leaders in the Native language revitalization movement.

On Wednesday, May 13, participants will convene on Capitol Hill to educate their Congressional delegations about the critical importance of defending and increasing support for Native language programs through the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act. Earlier this year, the United States Congress appropriated an additional $1.5 million over the enacted 2008 budget (which was $2 million) for the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act.

Cultural Survival and the National Alliance to Save Native Languages also pushed for $5 million in BIA funding in the federal economic stimulus package for "shovel ready" projects at Native language immersion schools desperately in need of repairs and renovations.