<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><A href="http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html">http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;">This web site is an outgrowth of a series of annual </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/History.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">conferences</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"> started in 1994 at </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.nau.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Northern Arizona University</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"> focusing on the linguistic, educational, social, and political issues related to the survival of the endangered Indigenous languages of the world. The first two conferences were funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (as of 2002 </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html?src=mr"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Office of English Language Acquisition</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;">) to help achieve the goals of the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/stabilize/ii-policy/nala1990.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Native American Languages Act</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"> of 1990, which makes it government policy to promote, protect, and preserve the Indigenous languages of the United States. The </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.fpcf.ca/SILS2005/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">Twelfth Annual Conference</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"> was held in Victoria, British Columbia, on June 2-5, 2005. The 2006 conference is scheduled for May 18-21, 2006, in Buffalo, New York. It is being hosted by Buffalo State College's School of Education and co-hosted by the Seneca Nation of Indians.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;">At the heart of this site are 97 full text papers from the 1997 through 2003 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages conferences as well as the 2000 Learn in Beauty and 1989 Native American Language Issues conferences</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">.:. </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">André Cramblit: andre.p.cramblit.86@alum.dartmouth.org is the Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council NCIDC (http://www.ncidc.org) is a non-profit that meets the development needs of American Indians</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">To subscribe to a news letter of interest to Natives send an email to: IndigenousNewsNetwork-subscribe@topica.com or go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/IndigenousNewsNetwork/subscribe/?location=listinfo</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>