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 [...]
navajo language radio
May 7
Navajo Tribe President Shirley records a weekly radio address in Navajo that goes out over the Navajo radio station KTNN (ktnnonline.com) because there are still lots of Navajos who don’t speak any English.
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 [...]
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 of who we [...]
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 basically [...]
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 [...]