Certainly a lot has happened in the last 4 months. We’ve gotten a lot of great support, ideas, conversation and brainstorming help, and just a lot of love in general from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, as well as Tulsans Andrew & Rebecca, Frank & Heather, and Anthony in Michigan. In a way, [...]
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progress as promised.
Oct 31
starting to build
Jun 13
this weekend i am working on a twitter account: http://twitter.com/nativelanguage and a website:v http://www.nativelanguageproject.com/ …not much up there now obviously but it’s a start and it will grow with time!
progress
Jun 12
last week i spoke with the arts and humanities council of tulsa who are VERY supportive and think this is a great idea. their president has agreed to help me put together a formal proposal, budget, etc. and possibly seek some grant money. i’m not too worried about that since the cost is not going [...]
more notes
May 6
something that i have been wanting to implement for almost a decade is an oral history project that records the stories, legends, and culture of native american elders. these are cultures that for the most part have little or no recorded history and as the elders of these tribes pass away, there’s often no-one to [...]
notes
Apr 5
When I was doing some freelance work for the Native American Times about 9 years ago, we had an idea to preserve native american culture via online video, thereby passing down oral tradition down from older generations to the newer generations and record it using newer technology. the first few updates on this site will [...]
brainstorming
Mar 4
i am in the brainstorming process of putting together a website called the, “native language project” (http://www.nativelanguageproject.com/) which would be an oral history project that records the stories, legends, and culture of native american elders. these are cultures that for the most part have little or no recorded history and as the elders of these [...]