mathias | January 6, 2012

The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company has given lots of money to Native language efforts via their American Indian College Fund donations, recently, UPS has done the same, awarding the fund 150k!

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mathias | January 4, 2012

“Indian Country Today” published an article toward the end of 2011 recapping highlights in Native language news over the past year. SAIVUS reported on nearly all of them: • Ojibwe • Lakota • Squamish • Wampanoag • Cherokee • Inuktitut

Category: Cherokee, Inuktitut, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Mohawk, Native Languages, Ojibwe (Ojibwa, Chippewa), Squamish, Wampanoag | 2 Comments »
Tags: Cherokee, Indian Country Today, Inuktitut, Lakota, Ojibwe, Squamish, Wampanoag

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 [...]

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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 | January 3, 2012

SAIVUS Blog will pick up again. SAIVUS Blog will be the only page associated with saivus.org until a prototype lesson is completed. All SAIVUS related news will appear in the SAIVUS Blog. SAIVUS is taking a more media-oriented, less literary approach to language pedagogy.

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