Anumpa Achukma/Good News
Language Loss Can Be Reversed
02.08
This is a newsletter dedicated to reporting the successes in revitalizing endangered languages worldwide. Share your good news with us by sending us an article about your program or current activity in revitalizing an endangered language.
Please forward this newsletter to anyone who might be interested.
More Planning
So far you have created your goal(s) and purpose(s).
Here are the next steps. Create your operational rules or guides for the organization or activity that are not to be changed. These are your Policies.
Recently in a meeting with other community Native Americans, we decided not to become angry or upset with each but to listen with respect to each other. This is our first Policy. An example of a language policy in a family might be always to greet each other in the target language or to never laugh at someone’s attempts to use the language, depending on the level of language proficiency of the family, of course.
After you have established the policies, begin on the short-range broad agenda. These are the Plans.
The next newsletter will go through expanding these plans.
3rd Annual Voices of the Earth Threatened Languages Poetry Reading
Wow!
It was spectacular! Below is a link to some photos.
http://voicesoftheearth.blogspot.com/
Additionally, the
CD of the 2007 event is now available. For excerpts, go to this web address.
http://www.drgrammarguru.com/music2006.html
The CD contains Nahuatl prayer, Irish songs, Navajo poetry and songs, and Okinawan article and son. For a copy, send a check or money order (Purchase Order OK) for $7 to the following address.
Ho Anumpoli!
316 ½ Columbia Dr. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
This would make a great library purchase. Ho Anumpoli! is a tax exempt, charitable organization.
Success Stories (from various sources)
*Course revitalizes
Odawa language
With the cooperation of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Harbor Springs High School is now offering the new course. Anishinaabemowin puts an academic focus on the Native American culture and its history in Northern Michigan. Additionally, the class counts as a second language program and provides students with one-and-a-half credits toward graduation.
Full article link below.
http://www.petoskeynews.com/articles/2008/02/01/opinion/doc47a3195948497252005617.txt
*Maintaining culture a priority; Native language teacher for students
The Algonquins of Pikwakanagan are hoping to extend their partnership with both the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board and the Renfrew County District School Board in order to extend and continue the native language program.
To access the full article, follow the link below.
http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=880865
*Native Language Film
Shows at Sundance
Ann Iñupiaq short film was featured at Sundance this year, too. It's called Sikumi (On the
Ice), by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, and it's shot entirely in the Iñupiaq language (northern Alaska).
*Course to help break
the language barrier in the Labrador justice system
The Telegram
A course intended to get Innu and Inuit people involved in the justice system in Labrador began February 1, 2008, in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Students from Innu and Inuit communities who complete the Aboriginal Legal Interpreters Course will be eligible for employment in the justice system a legal interpreters.
Full article link below.
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=100139&sc=79
*Aboriginal films from
around the world hosted on new website
Inuit filmmaker Zach Kunuk and his co-producer Norman Cohn grabbed worldwide attention for their film "Atanarjuat" when it won a medal at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, but neither expected the accolades and attention to trickle downto others telling aboriginal stories. That's why the two have started a new service allowing such filmmakers from around the world to share and show their work on a website that could become the YouTube of aboriginal cinema.
Full article link
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOXpLKjKFtGKXYT0J2qOLJM7zCOA
*Dead linguist's work
reviving dead languages: Eccentric traveled California talking to native
speakers in the early 1900s
Volunteers at the University of California-Davis are working to decipher nearly a million pages of notes from conversations with long-gone Californians, reviving more than 100 languages from the distant past.
To access full article, just follow the link below.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5448796.html
*Nepal to document 8
endangered languages
Eight different endangered indigenous languages are to be documented with grammar sketches and dictionaries. The research will be conducted by Central Department of Linguistics of Tribhuvan University with support from the National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities (NFDIN). The endangered languages are Raji, Bankariya, Dumi, Thakali, Danuwar, Kishan, Santhali and Kou.
To access full article, follow the link below.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/14/content_7419086.htm
Pair breathe life into
dead language: Takelma are thought to be the earliest residents of Southern
Oregon
By Paris Achen
Mail Tribune
January 11, 2008
In 1933, anthropologist John Peabody Harrington chauffeured the last known fluent Takelma speaker, Frances Johnson, from the Siletz Reservation near Newport to the Rogue River Valley to capture some of the phrases and stories of the dying indigenous language. During the trip, Harrington took about 1,200 pages of field notes on the language, now extinct, said storyteller Thomas Doty. Johnson died the following year. Seventy-five years later, Doty and author John Michael Greer hope to revive the Takelma language by writing its first handbook.
To access the full article, follow the link below.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080111/NEWS/801110323
*AKL 107-JD1: ELEMENTARY HAIDA I*
4 Credits
Spring 2008
Instructor: Dr. Jordan Lachler
This course is an introduction to the Haida language as spoken in Alaska. The course focuses on developing a core vocabulary of several hundred words, as well as an understanding of many of the basic grammatical patterns in the language. Students will learn how to make statements, ask and answer questions, give descriptions of people and things, and talk about activities in both the
past and the present.
This is a web-based course, meaning that all instruction will be carried out on the internet. All course materials, including written lessons, audio files, interactive language games, grammatical exercises and homework assignments will be available through the course website. Students will also be able to interact with each other and the instructor through discussion forums, email and other means throughout the semester. Students will not need any special computer equipment, aside from speakers, and all the software needed for the class is available free of charge.
The course begins the week of January 14th, and continues though May 2nd.
For further information on the course itself, email: *
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*Indigenous
communities use cinema to redeem culture and traditions
http://www.ambienteemfoco.com.br/?p=6855
Note: The above article is written in Portuguese. It gives a brief glimpse into a unique kind of ethnographic filmmaking done in the first person by indigenous Kuikuro of Brazil. You can learn more about this project--Video in the Villages--at the following link.
Video in the Villages collection
http://www.der.org/films/vitv-collection.html
It also appeared as an article: The Video in the Villages Project: Videomaking with and by Brazilian Indians, Patricia Aufderheide, Visual Anthropology Review, Fall 1995, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 83-93
Pupils mark Indigenous
language milestone
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/08/2134094.htm
Aboriginal students in Alice Springs have completed Year 12 studies in an Indigenous language for the first time. Dominique Castle from the Alice Springs language centre says five Indigenous students received high NTCE scores in Arrernte language studies in 2007.
*Comanche Newsletter
Below is a link for this newsletter.
Radio
Program in Tlingit
Below is pasted a link to a radio show I had done for our community. It airs three times a week. We never used to have Tlingit language over the air. Now it is being heard to cause an awareness that our language is on the verge of extinction.
We also have a grassroots effort program in our community teaching language in the Klukwan School and in the community of Klukwan. We have a mentor/apprentice program also.
http://khnsradio.web.aplus.net/listen.php
Gunalcheesh,
Marsha
Oneidas see benefits
in public, tribal schools: Whatever they choose, families keep culture in mind
By Patti Zarling pzarling@greenbaypressgazette.com
To access the full article, just follow the link below.
Conferences and Training
*CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Linguists, Students of Linguistics, Language Activists
INSTITUTE ON FIELD LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION
UC Santa Barbara
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/
Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008
Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008
Application Deadline: February 29, 2008
*4th CELCNA (Salt Lake City, March 28-30)
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From Tamrika Khvtisiashvili (t.khvtisiashvili@utah.edu)
10 Jan 2008:
The 4th Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA-4) will be held March 28-30, 2008, at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, American Philosophica Society, and CAIL (Center for American Indian Languages, University of Utah). The keynote speakers will be MaryAnn Willie (U of Arizona, Navajo Nation) and Michael Krauss (U of Alaska)??.
A special workshop on teaching American Indian languages (and language revitalization) will be held on Thursday, March 27; all interested are warmly invited - no cost (just registration for CELCNA).
Registration: $25 (students $15) (tribal elders, no cost) [to cover cost of conference rooms, refreshments]
To book accommodations contact the Guest House directly (mention CELCNA):? University Guest House University of Utah/110 South Fort Douglas Blvd./Salt Lake City, Utah 84113-5036.
Tel (toll-free): 1-888-416-4075 (or 801-587-1000); fax 801-587-1001; website
http://www.guesthouse.utah.edu
(Please make reservations early; rooms will be held for the conference only until early March.)
Further information: Tamrika Khvtisiashvili (tamrikak@hotmail.com) or
Lyle Campbell (lyle.campbell@linguistics.utah.edu). Or call 801-587-0720 or 801-581-3441 during business hours, or fax 801-585-7351.
* Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (Flagstaff, May 2-3)
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From Jon Reyhner (Jon.Reyhner@nau.edu) 14 Dec 2007:
The plans for the 15th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, which will be held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff on May 2-3, are moving along. You can read about the confirmed keynote speakers, look at the conference schedule, and download registration and other forms by going to our Teaching Indigenous Languages web site at http://nau.edu/TIL
and clicking on "conference" on the menu bar at the top of the page. The deadline for submitting presentation proposals is January 30, and the pre-registration deadline is March 15. For more information you can also contact me.
Update: We have received over 20 presentation proposals from across the United States as well as from New Zealand and Canada. January 30 was the deadline for proposals, but we are extending that deadline to February 29 inorder to allow for some additional sessions.
I am also happy to announce that we have received foundation funding to provide a limited amount of financial assistance for language activists, teachers, etc. to attend the conference. However, the foundation limits its support to within the United States. An application form for funding is available at http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/SIL15/SILS15scho-appl.rtf
For more information e-mail Jon.Reyhner@nau.edu
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Announcing the 29th Annual American Indian Language Development Institute
June 4 - July 2, 2008
University of Arizona
*Creating Spaces for Indigenous Languages in Everyday Life*
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The University of Arizona and Department of Language, Reading & Culture invite you to the 29th American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI). AILDI 2008 will have a special focus on Native teachers in the classroom and language. Special topics will include NCLB (No Child Left Behind) & Native students, language immersion methods in the classroom, Native children's literature & writing and schooling in Native American communities. Our theme, *Creating Spaces for Indigenous Languages in Everyday Life *reflects this emphasis and will be highlighted with guest speakers, presentations, activities, projects, and fieldtrips.
AILDI provides a unique educational experience for teachers of Native children. The AILDI format offers Native and non-Native teachers the opportunity to become researchers, practitioners, bilingual/bicultural curriculum specialists, and especially effective language teachers. The common concern of language loss, revitalization and maintenance brings educators, parents, tribal leaders and community members to this university setting to study methods for teaching Native languages and cultures and to develop materials.
AILDI offers six graduate credits or undergraduate credit hours during four weeks of intensive study. Courses can be applied toward regular degree programs and teacher endorsements.
Please visit our website at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi for more information.
Russian Conference
Dear friends,
I hope all of you remember me. I was a Fulbright scholar in America from March to August, 2007. I am a Head of the state and law disciplines Deparment of the Tatar state humanitarian and pedagogical university (Kazan, Russia). On May 19, 2008 we will organize a conference “Contemporary questions of the people’s rights in the modern world”. It will be international conference. We will publish a collection of articles in Russian and English languages. So, all of you are welcome to participate at our conference.
You can send you articles to my e-mail. The questions which will be discussed are indigenous people’s rights, national minorities rights, self-determination right, self-government right, lands and natural resources rights, language and religious rights and also in particular: International and domestic protection of Native American rights.
Everybody wecome to participate in our conference.
I wait articles from you.
Sincerely yours,
Ruslan Garipov.
Руслан Гарипов
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*31st Annual Second
Language Research Forum (SLRF)
October 17-19, 2008
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/
ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION SYSTEM IS NOW OPEN! (See Call for Proposals section for complete details and instructions for proposal submissions)
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
Notification of selection: Mid-May 2008
Theme: EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES
Plenary speakers:
- Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
- Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)
- Dr. Eva Lam (Northwestern University)
- Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
We welcome all areas of second language research, including, but not limited to
- Instructed SLA
- Acquisition of grammar and phonology
- Child SLA
- L2 Processing
- Language and learner characteristics
- Language and cognition
- Discourse and interaction
- Language and socialization
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Language and ideology
- Literacy development
- Learner corpora
- Language learning and technology
- Second language measurement
1) PAPERS:
Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion).
2) POSTERS:
Posters will be displayed for a full day. Posters are intended for one-on-one discussion or reports of work in progress.
3) COLLOQIUA:
The colloquia/panels consist of individual paper presentations that relate to a specific or related topics of interest. They are offered in 2-hour sessions.
Please see our website for complete proposal submission instructions and additional updates: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/.
Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.
For any proposal submission questions, please contact the SLRF 2008 Program Chairs at slrf2008program@gmail.com.
Grants
Native American Studies
The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants up to $3,500 for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental U.S. and Canada.The committee prefers to support the work of younger scholars who have received the doctorate. Applications are also accepted from graduatestudents for research on master's theses or doctoral dissertations.
DEADLINE: March 3, 2008
http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips.htm
*Native American
Language Preservation and Maintenance
The Administration for Native Americans announces funds for new community-based activities under its Native Language program to assist Native Americans in assuring the survival and continuing vitality of their languages. Grants are provided under the following four categories: 1) Native Language Assessment grants to conduct the assessment needed to identify the current status of the Native American language(s) to be addressed; 2) Native Language Project Planning grants to plan a language project; and 3) Native Language Project Implementation grants to implement a preservation language project that will contribute to the achievement of the community's long-range language goals; and 4) Native Language Immersion Project grants for language nests or for language survival schools. Applicants must provide a 20% non-federal match of the approved project costs. Universities can participate only in partnership with a tribe or local community nonprofit as the lead applicant.
DEADLINE: March 12, 2008
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ANA-NL-0016.html
Calling all Oklahoma
Digital Storytellers!
If you are a current PK-20 educator in Oklahoma, you are eligible to apply for a 3 day workshop on digital storytelling offered as part of our statewide “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” project.
Full blog link below.
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/
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