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 tribes pass away, there’s often no-one to carry on that oral tradition, because the languages and knowledge are no longer passed on down to younger generations.
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- government efforts (1)
- language education (1)
- native language sources (2)
- native wisdom (1)
- news & updates (16)
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cherokee cherokee language cherokee syllabary chippewa tribe community building cultural preservation Diné College do what you wish economic development email newsletter Esther Martinez Act fundraising ignite tulsa keyboard language preservation lost languages native american culture native american times native heritage month native language native language education native language project navajo navajo language ojibwe language online video oral history oral tradition osage osage language osage tribe planning powerpoint presentation preserve native languages radio strategic plan strategic planning strategy tribal elders tribal self-sufficiency twitter website website updates wichita tribe- RT @jpmontano: Last speaker of Wichita #language: 82yr-old Doris Jean Lamar http://bit.ly/9q26zU (@nativelanguage) #indigenous @nativelanguage 2010/08/17
- RT @IndigMapNetwork: Underwater Archaeology: Diving the Maya Underworld http://bit.ly/9gjW39 @nativelanguage 2010/07/27
- RT @OKBoomerang: Progress being made on American Indian Cultural Center @aiccm in OK: http://ow.ly/2hirV @nativelanguage 2010/07/27
- *|FNAME|*, here's the latest from the Native Language Project - http://eepurl.com/GAGJ @nativelanguage 2010/07/05
- RT @OKcommerce: Recognizing the economic power of tribal governments in Oklahoma. Op-ed: http://ow.ly/23qRi @nativelanguage 2010/06/25
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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