Indigenous Interpreters

This is a list of groups, organizations, and coalitions that bring American indigenous interpreters together to offer language and cultural services:

• Colibrí Interpreters Collective, New York City.

  • Languages covered: Tu’un Savi – Mixteco, nahuatl, me’pha -tlapanec, triqui, mixe, Garifuna, Kichwa, K’iche’, Mam

• CIELO – Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo, Los Angeles.
  • Comunidades Indígenas en liderazgo (CIELO) is an Indigenous women-led non-profit organization that works jointly with Indigenous communities residing in Los Angeles. One of our priorities is to fight for social justice through a cultural lens. Our fight for social justice includes ending gender-based violence, providing language access rights, cultural preservation, and reproductive justice. CIELO is a link, a resource, and a liaison for migrant Indigenous communities residing in Los Angeles. CIELO created the Center for Indigenous Language and Power (CILP) in response to the vast population of indigenous migrants from Mexico and Guatemala that has made a high demand for trained interpreters in Indigenous languages throughout the United States. CILP responds to the multiple needs that interpreters require to provide the most accurate interpretation while building power and sustainable leadership in the interpreters themselves.

• Collective of Indigenous Interpreters of Oregon –  Oregon.
  • Pueblo Unido is supporting the formation of the Collective of Indigenous Interpreters of Oregon (CIIO), a group of interpreters of Indigenous languages from Mexico and Central America. CIIO aims to address barriers to legal and social services for speakers of Indigenous languages in Oregon, and to ensure just compensation and treatment for Indigenous interpreters.
• Pixan Konob – Champaign, IL
  • Somos un grupo de jóvenes mujeres y hombres interesados en formarnos como intérpretes comunitarios. Nuestro objetivo es crear un espacio en donde podamos compartir nuestra cultura y lengua propia de nuestra comunidad.