Native Language Project » Esther Martinez Act http://www.nativelanguageproject.com audio and video of indigenous languages from various tribes Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:22:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 notes http://www.nativelanguageproject.com/news/notes/ http://www.nativelanguageproject.com/news/notes/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:04:19 +0000 cmoreno http://www.nativelanguageproject.com/?p=14 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 be notes I’ve collected about getting this project started.  here’s some information that i received from the office of the president of the navajo tribe:

I believe Diné College, the Navajo college, has a program to preserve Navajo language. That would be easy enough to check out.

Also, Congress passed the Esther Martinez Act last year that is designed to preserve native languages.

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