Don Davis, Minn. State Capitol Bureau ST. PAUL – American Indian leaders fear their native languages are being lost, calling the situation a crisis. “When a person passes away, it is like a whole dictionary that is gone,” Lillian Rice told a Minnesota House committee. A Native American’s language, she added, “is the very sense [...]
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- Endangered Language Fund ELF was founded ten years ago with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects. Our main mechanism for supporting work on endangered languages has been funding grants to individuals, tribes, and museums. 0
- Indigenous Language Institute The Indigenous Language Institute provides vital language related services to Native communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom and values are passed on to future generations in their original languages. 0
- The Longnow Foundation's Rosetta Project The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation’s first exploration into very long-term archiving. It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage meth 0
- The Rosetta Stone native language project The Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program works with native groups to customize Rosetta Stone software for exclusive use in language revitalization. Each revitalization project builds on the company’s mission to help people improve their lives and mak 0