mathias | January 3, 2012

• Event: “From Language Documentation to Language Revitalization” • Sponsors: SSILA: Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, CELP: Committee on Endangered Languages • What: Role of Linguistics in endangered language revitalization, as opposed to documentation. Six case studies will be discussed, and the film “We Still Live Here – Âs [...]

Category: Native Language Events | 3 Comments »
Tags: CELP, Committee on Endangered Languages, Linguistic Society of America, LSA, Patricia A. Shaw, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, SSILA, University of British Columbia, Wampanoag, We Still Live Here

mathias | October 14, 2011

The Indigenous Language Institute is holding a symposium at Hyatt Regency Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from Monday, October 24th – Tuesday, October 25th, 2011, organized into 45 minute sessions with 15 minute question/answer periods. Registration (through the ILI website) is $225, or $150 for students and elders. This year’s symposium is focused on immersion. [...]

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Tags: 2011 Indigenous Language Institute Symposium, Akwesasne Mohawk School, Hyatt Regency Hotel, immersion, Indigenous Langauge Institute Symposium, Indigenous Language Institute, Leslie Harper, Margaret Cook-Peters, Mark Macarro, Mohawk, Niigaane Immersion School, Ojibwe, Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, Speaking in Tongues

mathias | July 15, 2011

The LSA: Linguistic Society of America is urging you to write President Obama and ask him to sign the executive order on Native American language revitalization. Show your support for Native languages by printing out the template, signing it, and dropping it in the mailbox!

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Tags: Linguistic Society of America, LSA, Obama

mathias | June 14, 2011

One of, if not the, largest Native language events over the summer is the National Native Language Revitalization Summit in Washington, D.C. on June 22, 2011, which is coordinated by Cultural Survival and the National Alliance to Save Native Languages. Otherwise, The Institute to Teach, Revitalize Indigenous Languages at the University of Arizona has a [...]

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Tags: American Indian Language Policy Research Center, Christine Sims, Cultural Survival, Institute to Teach, National Alliance to Save Native Languages, National Native Langauge Revitalization Summit, Revitalize Indigenous Languages, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico

mathias | June 13, 2011

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Siletz Tribe of Oregon are being hosted this summer by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. in a series of festivals that celebrate American Indian music, culture, food and art. This year, their annual Living Earth Festival coincides with their Conversations with the Earth: [...]

Category: Choctaw, Mohawk, Native Language Events, Navajo (Diné) | No Comments »
Tags: Arkansas Education Television Network, Auto Immune Response, Becky Hobbs, Cherokee, Choctaw, Choctaw Days, Conversations with the Earth, Conway Kootenay, Gregg Analla, Gwen Coleman-Lester, Indigenous Voices on Climate Change, Isleta, Kissed by Lightning, Laguna Pueblo, Living Earth Festival, Marcus Amerman, Mitsitam Cafe, Mohawk, National Museum of the American Indian, Navajo, Pappy Johns Band, Plateros, Ramuson Theatre, Rebecca Miller, Red Power Squad, RedHorse Productions, Shelley Niro, Six Nations, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, The Long Walk, Trail of Tears, Victoria Blackie, Welcome Plaza, Will Wilson

Richard Littauer | May 31, 2011

Several Hawaiian educators recently traveled to Washington to talk to the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Specifically, they were talking about the success and worth of immersion programs in native languages. “These languages are crucial to Native American literature, ceremonial life, spirituality, kinship practices, and overall indigenous identity,” said Namaka Rawlins, a liaison from [...]

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Tags: 'Aha Punana Leo, Hawaiian, immersion, Maui Now, Namaka Rawlins, Ni'ihau, UH Hilo College of Hawaiian Language

mathias | May 10, 2011

The Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States (SAIVUS) is associated with VizLingo, a social-media company above Tumblr., which is creating the world’s first global visual language. Essentially, the program they’re inventing garnishes text with video clips, allowing word definitions (and entire worldviews) to be seen in conjunction with how they are written [...]

Category: Cherokee, Dakota (Santee Sioux, Yankton Sioux), Hawaiian, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Native Language Events, Plains Indian Sign Language | No Comments »
Tags: anthropological linguistics, Cherokee, Dakota, dialectology, documentation, Hawaiian, Lakota, language, linguistics, pedagogy, PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language, revitalization, SAIVUS, semiotics, Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States, sociolinguistics, technology, Tumblr., visual language, VizLingo

mathias | May 10, 2011

Northeastern State University’s Annual 39th Cherokee Nation Symposium ran from April 11th – 16th, which was, as always, free to the public thanks to financial support from the Oklahoma Humanities Council, Oklahoma Arts Council, Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism, Muscogee Creek Nation Casino, Proctor and Gamble and numerous private donors. Native speaking Cherokee linguist and University [...]

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Tags: 39th Cherokee Nation Symposium, Agreeing to Agree: How Words are Linked Together, Alex Cobb, borrowing, Brad Montgomery-Anderson, Cherokee, Cherokee dialects, Cherokee dictionary, Cherokee grammar, Cherokee language, Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism, Cherokee Nation Symposium, Cherokee Phoenix, Cherokee-English Dictionary, Danielle Culp, dialectology, Dictionary, Durbin Feeling, Harry Oosahwee, Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization, Marcellino Berardo, Miss Cherokee, Muscogee Creek Nation Casino, Native American Student Association, Northeastern State University, NSU Native American Student Association, Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma Hummanities Council, Oosahwee's Cherokee Language Forum, PBS, Proctor and Gamble, revitalization, song, Southern Methodist University, Tesina Jackson, Theda Purdue, University of Kansas, University of Kansas Applied English Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, We Shall Remain: Cherokee Language, William Pulte

mathias | April 29, 2011

The Tsi Akim band of Maidu in California (in the process of gaining federal recognition but currently recognized by local counties like Nevada and Yuba), are opening a cultural center, by which they mean an educational headquarters for learning more about the tribe. On Saturday April 30th, 2011 in Grass Valley, where they used to [...]

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Tags: Berry Creek Rancheria band of Maidu, Californian languages, Ferral Cunningham, Good Shield Aguilar, Grass Valley, KeyMan Jim, Lawrence Laughing, Maidu, Maidu Cultural and Development Group, Neena McNair Family Singers, Tsi Akim Maidu

mathias | April 28, 2011

Posoh Mawanew Weyak (Hello) -Menominee greeting Menominee is an Algonquian language endemic to Wisconsin and Michigan (for over 15,000 years) which has about 130 speakers or so. Specifically, there are 12 native/fully fluent speakers (75+ and older), plus around 100 “near speakers”: 39 first language speakers, 26 bilingual speakers, and 65 other individuals with some [...]

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Tags: 2007 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Algonquian, Amnesty International, Bermuda College, Colin Horsfield Memorial Lecturer, College of the Menominee Nation, Hallet Hall, Indian Removal Act of 1830, John Teller, Menominee, Menominee Historic Preservation Office, Menominee Language & Culture Commission, Menominee Restoration Act of 1973, Menomini, Michigan, revitalization, The Menominee Termination Act of 1954, Wisconsin