mathias | September 26, 2011

Sequoyah Schools of the Cherokee Nation extended full immersion classes to 6th graders and provided iPads and iPods to 7th and 8th graders as part of Sequoyah’s Technology Education Program (STEP). They’re using new technology in dynamic ways, consulting dictionary and vocabulary apps, taking reading comprehension quizzes, and creating video presentations. Reportedly, children are using [...]

Category: Cherokee | No Comments »
Tags: Ancient Village, Cherokee, Cherokee Heritage Center, Cherokee Nation, iCherokee, immersion, International Museum of Library Studies, iPad, iPod, iSyllabary, J. D. Ross, Oklahoma, Park Hill, Sequoyah Schools, Sequoyah's Technology Education Program, STEP, Steven Daughtery, Thornton Media, Writing Cherokee

mathias | June 8, 2011

This year, Beecher Bay (a.k.a. Scia’new) First Nation great grandmother Lee Charles started teaching Hul’qumi’num (a Coast Salish language) to 4th and 5th graders at Hans Helgesen Elementary School in British Columbia to non-Native and Native students alike (including her granddaughter, Danielle Charles-Horne). Charles was first asked to teach by Principal Julia Sahota. Though non-Native, [...]

Category: Choctaw, Coast Salish Languages, Gitxsanimaax, Hul'qumi'num, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Salish, Tsimshianic Languages | No Comments »
Tags: Beecher Bay, Choctaw, Coast Salish, Danielle Charles-Horn, Edmund Library, Fist Nations, French, Gitxsanimaax, Greg Rodgers, Hans Helgesen Elementary School, Hul'qumi'num, immersion, Julia Sahota, Lakota, Lee Charles, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma, Salish, Scia'new, Sue Tonnesen, Tsimshianic

mathias | June 6, 2011

Natchez, a Muskogean language of Louisiana, has been sleeping since the last two fluent speakers, Watt Sam and Nancy Raven, died in the 1930s. Today, only 6 of 10,000 enrolled Natchez can speak it, now located in Oklahoma. Fortunately, Breath of Life, a joint project of the University of Texas, Arlington and the University of [...]

Category: Natchez, Osage, Otoe | No Comments »
Tags: AFC, American Folklife Center, BOL, Breath of Life, DEL, descriptions, digitized, Documenting Endangered Languages program, ELF, Endangered Langauge Fund, Library of Congress, Louisiana, MNH, Muskogean, NAA, Natchez, National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of the American Indian, NMAI, Oklahoma, online dictionaries, online dictionary, Osage, Otoe, Sam Noble Museum, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, texts, Thomas Jefferson, UC Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas at Arlington, wordlists