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Indigenous Language Revitalization
The revitilization of Indigenous languages has long been of interest to me. I have very personal ties to the success of Indigenous peoples who are working to protect their sacred languages. I have been working with my people, the Menominee, to teach the young basic phrases and conversational Menominee. This project has helped me to focus on the important resources that are out there and has given me a foundation to start deeper research into the worlds of language revitalization processes and funding.
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Indigenous language revitalization is a very tricky process because of the diversity of languages as well as the difficulties that some communities have accessing information on the Internet. Some of these communities may still be accessing the Internet using a dial-up connection, if they can access it at all. This may pose problems for the use of this web page by community members. This may have to become purely a personal reference for my own studies and a foundation for future work for other Indigenous communities. I am hoping that I will be able to create a more accessible web page with these resources.
I always ask myself before writing a paper or starting a project, "Who is my audience?" Am I writing this for myself, for my teacher, for my people? The communities that this information is meant for may have trouble deciphering the data collected and tagged. I had a lot of difficulty trying to make sense of the way in which cataloging terms applied to websites. The terms themselves are very confusing and I am afraid I may have to spend more time trying to explain what these tables are and what they contain than utilizing these resources for the advancement of my people through our Menominee language. So my next thought was how exactly do I take this information I have collected and present it in a way that anyone young or old, educated or not, may access it.
That being said, I think my research into valid websites dedicated to Indigenous Language Revitalization was sucessful. I tried to find a wide variety of knowledge on language protection, documentation, grant resources, and ideas for growth. I did find more resources than needed for this project and this is only a sample of some of the best. I would like to expand this to include the other sources and maybe add another category that would include a personal analysis of the content with an Indigenous perspective and audience in mind.#2
Teaching Indigenous Languages Identifier:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL_Contents.html Description:
Teaching Indigenous Languages contains a selection of papers presented at the Fourth Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium "Sharing Effective Language Renewal Practices" held at Northern Arizona University (NAU) on May 1, 2, and 3, 1997. This conference brought together nearly three hundred indigenous language experts, teachers, and community activists to share information on how indigenous languages can best be taught at home and at school. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Study and teaching. 1997 Edited by Jon Reyhner Northern Arizona University Copyright © 1997 by Northern Arizona University.
ISBN 0-9624990-3-X
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-75530
Reprinting and copying on a nonprofit basis is hereby allowed with proper identification of the source.Event; Text; Collection Text/html English IsPartOf: Northern Arizona University's Web Server Fourth Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium #3
Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages Identifier:
http://www.native-languages.org/ Description:
Website dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology. It is a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Revival. 1998-2007 Laura Redish; Orrin Lewis; Nancy Sherman Native Languages of the Americas Feel free to link to this site or to any of the pages in it. Also, you have our permission to cite this information or pass it on to others in any way that would be useful. Our goal is to make it easier to learn about, preserve, and revive Native American languages by using the Internet. This is a public service on our part. All the information about American Indians and American Indian languages was written by Orrin Lewis, Laura Redish, or our friend Nancy Sherman, who has kindly agreed to let us use them. We make every possible effort to honor any request from Indian tribes and nations regarding the information we have provided about them, and we will listen carefully to requests from other people as well. Collection; InteractiveResource; Text Text/html English and examples of about 800 indigenous languages #4
Indigenous Language Institute Identifier:
http://www.indigenous-language.org/ Description:
The Indigenous Language Institute collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Revival. 2000-2007 Joanna Hess Indigenous Language Institute © 2000-2007 The Indigenous Language Institute Collection; InteractiveResource; Text Text/html English #5
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Identifier:
http://www.ssila.org/ Description:
This site is primarily interested in the scientific study of the languages of the native peoples of North, Central and South America. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Study and teaching. 2007 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Unknown Collection; InteractiveResource; Text Text/html English #6
Greenstone Digital Library Software Identifier:
http://www.greenstone.org/ Description:
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It is not a digital library but a tool for building digital libraries. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet in the form of a fully-searchable, metadata-driven digital library. It has been developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO in Belgium. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Its developers received the 2004 IFIP Namur award for "contributions to the awareness of social implications of information technology, and the need for an holistic approach in the use of information technology that takes account of social implications." Subject:
LCSH: Digital libraries--Collection development. 2005-2007 New Zealand Digital Library Project University of Waikato Copyright ? 2005 2006 2007 by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, New Zealand
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included on the Greenstone Wiki, in the section entitled ?GNU Free Documentation License.?Dataset; InteractiveResource; Service; Software; Text Text/html One of Greenstone's unique strengths is its multilingual nature. The reader's interface is available in the following languages: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Maori, Mongolian, Portuguese (BR and PT versions), Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
The Librarian interface and the full Greenstone documentation (which is extensive) is in: English, French, Spanish, and Russian.IsPartOf: University of Waikato, New Zealand #7
American Indian Language Development Institute Identifier:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi/ Description:
The American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) has provided effective training of Native American language educators, practitioners and researchers from across the U.S., Canada, South America, and various parts of the world. Since the establishment of AILDI, its primary mission has been to advocate Indigenous language rights and to ensure linguistic and cultural diversity. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Revival. 2006 Ofelia Zepeda; Regina L. Siquieros University of Arizona Unknown Event; InteractiveResource; Text Text/html English IsPartOf: University of Arizona #8
The Endangered Language Fund Identifier:
http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/ Description:
ELF was founded ten years ago with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects. Our main mechanism for supporting work on endangered languages has been funding grants to individuals, tribes, and museums. ELF’s 97 grants have promoted work in over 30 countries and have seen a wide range of projects, from the development indigenous radio programs in South Dakota, to recording of the last living oral historian of the Shor language of western Siberia, to the establishment of orthographies and literacy materials to be used by endangered language teaching programs all over the world. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Study and teaching. No Date The Endangered Language Fund The Endangered Language Fund © THE ENDANGERED LANGUAGE FUND Collection; Service; Text Text/html English #9
Terralingua Identifier:
http://www.terralingua.org/ Description:
Terralingua supports the integrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the biocultural diversity of life - the world's biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity - through an innovative program of research, education, policy and on-the-ground action. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Study and teaching. 1997-2004 Luisa Maffi David Harmon; Jonathan Loh; David J. Rapport; Ellen Woodley; Stanford Zent Terralingua Text © 1997-2004 Terralingua. All rights reserved.
Terralingua is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered under U.S.A. tax laws (38-3291259).Collection; Text Text/html English #10
Bilingual Research Journal Online Identifier:
http://brj.asu.edu/ Description:
The BRJ welcomes manuscripts dealing with bilingual education, bilingualism, and language policies in education (e.g., language assessment, policy analysis, instructional research, language politics, biliteracy, language planning, second language learning and teaching, action research, and sociolinguistics). As the official organ of the National Association for Bilingual Education, the journal has a strong interest in matters related to the education of language minority children and youth in the United States, grades K-12, but articles focusing on other countries are often included. Subject:
LCSH: Bilingualism--Research. 2006 National Association for Bilingual Education Arizona State University All Rights Reserved. Collection; Dataset; InteractiveResource; Text Text/html English IsPartOf: Northern Arizona University
Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data Identifier:
http://emeld.org/index.cfm Description:
E-MELD is a 5-year project with a dual objective: 1) To aid in ther preservation of endangered languages data and documentation. 2) To aid in the development of the infrastructure necessary for effective collaboration among electronic archives. Subject:
LCSH: Indians of North America--Languages--Study and teaching. 2001-2007 Hunter Lockwood Wayne State University; Eastern Michigan University; University of Arizona; Linguistic Data Consortium; Endangered Language Fund National Science Foundation © 2001-2007 Collection; Dataset; InteractiveResource; Text Text/html English IsPartOf: National Science Foundation; IsPartOf: The Liguistics List Bilingual Reseach Journal Volume 16 1992