mathias | April 22, 2011

Radio programs in indigenous languages like Ma:lamalama for Hawaiians and various for the Navajo are definitely a great way for Native language learners to gain extra exposure to their tongues? Blackfoot just joined the bandwagon. The 6 year old 107.5 FM station just launched Blackfoot language classes on their airwaves. Darell Kipp leads a one [...]

Category: Blackfoot, Hawaiian, Navajo (Diné) | No Comments »
Tags: 107.5 FM, Blackfoot, Blackfoot Community College, Browning, classes, Darrell Kipp, Global Recordings Network, Hawaiian, KBWG, Malamalama, Marvin Weatherwax Sr., Navajo, Plains Indian Sign Language, radio, Robert Hall, Voices of Browning

mathias | March 25, 2011

Emily Steele, editor-in-chief Den News recently wrote a column about the endangered status of Cherokee, how she found out about language loss through watching The Linguists (2008), and how fortunate she is Apple is helping Cherokee. Although Cherokee has 12,000-22,000 speakers, which is pretty healthy for a Native language (though the Eastern dialects are severely [...]

Category: Cherokee, Native Language Events, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Tags: Cherokee, Cherokee Head Start, Cherokee Preservation Foundation, classes, Eastern Cherokee, immersion, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair, Rogers State University, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, The Linguists (2009), The Mount, Tribal Care Center, University of North Carolina, University of Oklahoma, University of Western Carolina, Western Cherokee

mathias | January 24, 2011

This week there has been tons of media coverage on increased support for Native language classes. Alyce Spotted Bear from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in New Town – vice president of Native American Studies and Tribal Relations at Fort Berthold Community College, as well as part of the NACIE (National Advisory Council on Indian [...]

Category: Arikara, Choctaw, Hidatsa, Mandan, Ojibwe (Ojibwa, Chippewa) | 1 Comment »
Tags: Alyce Spotted Bear, Arikara, Arikara language, Arikara language classes, Chippewa, Chippewa classes, Chippewa language, Chippewa language classes, Choctaw, Choctaw language classes, Choctaw languages, classes, Fort Berthold, Hidatsa, Hidatsa language, Hidatsa language classes, language classes, Mandan, Mandan language, Mandan language classes, Ojibwa, Ojibwa language, Ojibwa language classes, Ojibwe, Ojibwe classes, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Ojibwe language, Ojibwe language classes