{"id":50,"date":"2022-08-10T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinbokv.wordpress.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:18:44","slug":"apre-nouzot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/apre-nouzot\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We believe that language is the foundation of culture. Once a language has gone dormant or extinct, then the culture associated with it may become susceptible to assimilation, misunderstanding and misrepresentation. Language also informs our worldview. Speaking, reading, and writing Kouri-Vini provides a more profound connection to our culture and identity. We believe that having engaging learning resources and a strong community of learners is essential to the reclamation of an endangered heritage language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Clif St. Laurent<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Amber Leigh Moore<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Christophe Landry<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Ang\u00e9lique Bergeron<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Shantal Frazier<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Kalindah Marie Laveaux<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Shawanda Marie<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Lawrence Mason III<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Adrien Guillory-Chatman<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Brandon Joseph<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Chanel Jones<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chinbo, Inc. is devoted to the reclamation of Kouri-Vini, Louisiana\u2019s endangered Creole language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Provide educational and learning resources to the Louisiana community and its diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To see a resurgence of Kouri-Vini spoken within the global Louisiana Creole community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reunion: <\/strong>We value family and community collaboration within the Gulf South region of the historical Louisiana territory and the Louisiana Creole diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reconnection:<\/strong> We value Kouri-Vini\u2013a language indigenous to Louisiana\u2013and its historical expression of the Louisiana Creole culture. We strive to provide people the opportunity to continue living our cultural traditions through Kouri-Vini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relearn:<\/strong> We value (re)learning heritage languages from both community and academic knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rejuvenation:<\/strong> We value (re)investment in traditional and technology-based resources which give new vigor to Kouri-Vini education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reclamation:<\/strong> We value our whole history and believe that Louisiana and Gulf South region Creole people should tell their own story, shedding selective history, disinformation, commodification, and stereotypes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nouz\u00f2t kr\u00f2 Nouz\u00f2t kr\u00f2 in langaj \u00e7\u00e9 fondasyon pou kiltir-la. \u00c9kan in langaj tomb\u00e9 end\u00f2rmi, kiltir-la ki asosy\u00e9 av\u00e8k, li vini viln\u00e9rab a lasimilasyon, malkompr\u00e9ensyon \u00e9 malrepr\u00e9zentasyon. En plis, langaj-la \u00e7\u00e9 in gro sous pou ma\u00f1\u00e6r n\u2019ap gadd\u00e9 moun-la. Parl\u00e9, lir \u00e9pi \u00e9kri dan kouri-vini, \u00e7a donn nouz\u00f2t in konn\u00e8ksyon profon a n\u00f4 kiltir \u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false,"mailpoet_newsletter_max":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ckv","author_link":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/author\/chinbokv\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Nouz\u00f2t kr\u00f2 Nouz\u00f2t kr\u00f2 in langaj \u00e7\u00e9 fondasyon pou kiltir-la. \u00c9kan in langaj tomb\u00e9 end\u00f2rmi, kiltir-la ki asosy\u00e9 av\u00e8k, li vini viln\u00e9rab a lasimilasyon, malkompr\u00e9ensyon \u00e9 malrepr\u00e9zentasyon. En plis, langaj-la \u00e7\u00e9 in gro sous pou ma\u00f1\u00e6r n\u2019ap gadd\u00e9 moun-la. Parl\u00e9, lir \u00e9pi \u00e9kri dan kouri-vini, \u00e7a donn nouz\u00f2t in konn\u00e8ksyon profon a n\u00f4 kiltir \u00e9…","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5382,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/5382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}