From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan  2 06:34:28 2010
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudy Troike)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:34:28 -0700
Subject: Fwd: New issue of LD&C (Vol. 3, number 2) online (free)
Message-ID: <FRI.1.JAN.2010.233428.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

----- Forwarded message from ldc at hawaii.edu -----
    Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:25:45 -1000
    From: Language Documentation & Conservation <ldc at hawaii.edu>
    Subject: New issue of LD&C (Vol. 3, number 2)

The December 2009 issue (Volume 3, Number 2) of Language Documentation &
Conservation (LD&C) is now available at:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/

Sincerely,
LD&C Editorial Staff

---Table of Contents---

Volume 3, Number 2 (December 2009)

ARTICLES
Phoenix or Relic? Documentation of Languages with Revitalization in Mind
Rob Amery

Five Dimensions of Collaboration: Toward a Critical Theory of Coordination and
Interoperability in Language Documentation
Akiemi Glenn

Relatively Ethical: A Comparison of Linguistic Research Paradigms in Alaska and
Indonesia
Gary Holton

Documentation and Language Learning: Separate Agendas or Complementary Tasks?
Norbert Francis and Pablo Rogelio Navarrete Gómez

Online Dictionary and Ontology Building for Austronesian Languages in Taiwan
D. Victoria Rau, Meng-Chien Yang, Hui-Huan Ann Chang, and Maa-Neu Dong

NOTES FROM THE FIELD
Buhi’non (Bikol) Digital Wordlist: Presentation Form
Kenneth S. Olson, Emy T. Ballenas, Nilo M. Borromeo

TECHNOLOGY REVIEWS
Review of Transana 2.30
Oksana Afitska

Review of Transcribe!
Linda Barwick

Review of LEXUS
Kristina Kotcheva

BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Spelling and society: The culture and politics of orthography around
the world
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer

Review of The writing revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
Kristine Stenzel


From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Thu Jan  7 17:14:58 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:14:58 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: Fw: Breaking News - Media Advisory - BC Olympics to Face
 Disruption by Indian residential school survivors - government
 given  deadline to return bodies - please circulate]
Message-ID: <THU.7.JAN.2010.121458.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


Please circulate as you see fitting....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fw: Breaking News - Media Advisory - BC Olympics to Face 
Disruption by Indian residential school survivors - government given 
deadline to return bodies - please circulate
Date: 	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:02:52 +0000
From: 	Chris McCormick <cmccormick at aiai.on.ca>


    International Media Advisory
    Tuesday January 5, 2010 1:00 am PST

    British Columbia Olympics to Face Civil Disruptions by Survivors of
    Canadian Indian Residential schools -
    Government Given Deadline for Return of Bodies

    Vancouver - The group representing survivors of Indian residential
    schools on Canada's west coast announced today that it will hold
    civil disobedience actions and disruptions during the February 2010
    Olympics near Vancouver if the Canadian government and mainline
    churches have not announced a timetable for the repatriation of the
    remains of the thousands of children who died in these schools.

    The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD), which held
    high-profile protests and occupations of churches in Vancouver and
    Toronto during 2007 and 2008 and compelled the Canadian government
    to issue an apology for the residential schools in July, 2008, has
    given Canada and the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of
    Canada until February 15, 2010 to announce when and how they will
    return for a proper burial the remains of Indian children who died
    under their care.

    As part of this deadline, the FRD has also demanded that the
    government and churches make public the names of those responsible
    for the deaths of these children, and indicate by what judicial
    mechanism the guilty or the responsible institutions will face trial.

    Nearly half of the 150,000 children who attended Canadian Indian
    residential schools died as a result of conditions in the schools.
    (Globe and Mail, April 24, 2007) In April, 2008, the FRD released to
    the media and police a list of twenty eight mass graves near former
    Indian residential schools where many of the children are alleged to
    be buried.

    "We will halt church and government operations during the Olympics
    if that's what it takes to get the bodies of our relatives back"
    said Carol Martin, a Nishga native woman and FRD spokesperson.

    "The world has to know that our people are still dying from the
    genocide Canada and the churches inflicted on us. We've waited long
    enough for justice."

    For more information contact the FRD at:
    hiddenfromhistory@ yahoo.ca or 250-753-3345 (Canada)
    And see the website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
    <http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/>

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wahjeh
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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Sat Jan  9 21:29:07 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:29:07 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: Olympic torch ignites passion - and protest]
Message-ID: <SAT.9.JAN.2010.162907.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Apologies for any double postings....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Olympic torch ignites passion - and protest
Date: 	Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:09:36 -0800
From: 	Larry Kibby <l.kibby at frontier.com>




News Article
January 9, 2010
 
The following news article has been posted or forwarded in full, no 
material or data has altered or changed, please leave intact as is.
 
This news article can be located at the following web site link:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-01-09/olympic-torch-ignites-passion.html
 
*Olympic torch ignites passion ? and protest*
 
A wave of anti-Olympic sentiment and protests in Canada are threatening 
the international symbol of the Games as it makes its way across the 
vast Far North.
 
The world?s eyes are now on the North American state as it gears up to 
host the 2010 Winter Olympics, running from February 12 to 28. Although 
it is a widespread notion that the Olympic Games bring wealth, 
employment, international recognition and general prosperity to whatever 
country hosts the high profile event, the Games have historically been 
used to denounce a wide range of social injustices and human rights abuses.
 
This year?s edition of the Winter Olympics is no different. Extra 
attention has placed increased scrutiny on many of Canada?s actions, 
both past and present, which continue to tarnish the country, commonly 
referred to as the Great White North.
 
*Relay tainted by protests*
Episodes of growing anti-Olympic sentiment and protest have marred the 
Olympic torch relay, which set off from Canada?s east coast last October 30.
 
Covering approximately 35,000 kilometers of Canadian terrain, the 2010 
Olympic Torch Relay will run through every province and territory over a 
106-day period, involve 12,00 torchbearers and unite all Canadians in 
celebration, until reaching its final destination in the host city, 
Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 12, 2010.
 
Up until now, most protests along the relay route have remained 
peaceful, with demonstrators picketing and handing out pamphlets in 
specific communities along the route.
 
However, the torch relay and ensuing protest is heating up. 
Demonstrators have disrupted the flame procession or caused its route to 
be changed in Montreal, Toronto and other central Canadian cities. These 
interruptions all ended peacefully until anti-Olympic protests hit their 
peak on December 28 when a torchbearer was shoved and fell to the ground.
 
Cortney Hansen, 28, of the province of Ontario, almost unintentionally 
extinguished the flame on the wet pavement in her fall. According to 
eyewitnesses, she was accidentally pushed in an altercation between 
protesters and police; she then tripped and fell to the ground in front 
of shocked 1,000 onlookers.
 
/?I couldn?t believe my eyes,?/ Erica Goldman told RT as she recounted 
the incident. /?I think all people have the right to voice their 
opposition to any issue, but they should do so peacefully and without 
causing violence or upset. But there?s a proper time and a place. I saw 
the fall with my own eyes and it was horrifying. My son and daughter 
were pretty shaken up over it and wanted to know why anyone would 
protest the Olympics.?/
// 
Hansen continued the run, and was later treated for minor injuries. A 
19-year-old demonstrator was arrested for assaulting Hansen.
 
A few days later, further along the relay route in Ontario, another 
eight protesters were arrested for an attempt to disrupt the torch run.
 
/?We were out because the Olympics are taking place on indigenous 
territory out in British Columbia,?/ Mark Corbiere, a spokesperson for 
the protest group, called the Olympics Resistance Network, told the 
press. /?It?s a land grab from the colonial history of the Canadian 
government.?/
// 
*Alleged ?land grab?*
The greatest claim by anti-racism and anti-capitalism protesters, many 
of which are of Aboriginal origin, is that most of the Canadian province 
of British Columbia is still sovereign Native Aboriginal land, over 
which neither the Canadian or BC governments have the legal or moral 
authority to govern, let alone hold such a high-profile international 
event on the contested land.
 
Widely seen in protests across Canada in the lead up to the Vancouver 
Olympics, /?the slogan ?No Olympics on Stolen Native Land? is a way to 
raise anti-colonial consciousness in Canada and across the world about 
the true and unfettered history of colonial Canada,?/ says Eliza Dupre, 
an Aboriginal protester from an Olympics protest group based in central 
Canada.
 
/?Just because the Vancouver Olympics are being organized with a group 
of Aboriginals in Vancouver [called the Four Host First Nations, which 
comprises the Lil?wat, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First 
Nations], doesn?t mean that all Aboriginals in Canada support it,? /she 
adds.
 
It is the first time ever that a local community of indigenous peoples 
has taken part in the planning and organization of an Olympic Games from 
the bidding phase, but this unprecedented partnership is seen by 
protesters as ?the result of literally buying people off to pacify and 
silence opposition,? says Dupre.
 
*The costs of raising the flame*
Another hot potato is the negative environmental impact the Olympics 
will have on the local and mountain ecosystem in and around the host 
cities of Vancouver and Whistler. Despite its claim of being the 
?greenest Olympics? ever, protestors believe that the 2010 Olympics will 
be among the most environmentally destructive in contemporary history.
 
Dupre notes that ?tens of thousands of trees [have been] cut down, 
mountainsides blasted and natural habitats destroyed for Olympic venues 
near Whistler, [as well as] the massive highway expansion that was 
recently completed.?
 
Protesters also claim that Vancouver?s poor, which includes many 
Natives, are the ones that will pay the highest price. ?The 2010 Games 
has already meant hundreds of evictions from low-income housing, more 
homelessness, criminalization, and increased police presence and 
repression toward the poor and marginal,? a member of the Anti-Poverty 
Committee in Vancouver told RT via telephone.
 
Even animal activists are the using the increased media attention of the 
Games to denounce Canada?s fur and seal trade. Lindsay Rajt, from the 
People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, says the Vancouver 2010 
Games are being targeted because the ?world will soon be turning its 
attention to Canada? and ?Canada?s image is now equated with seal killing.?
 
Although global sports fans and most Canadians highly anticipate and 
support the Games, Vancouver residents also fear some reprisals, such as 
increased traffic and higher taxes to cover the $6 billion cost of the 
event.
 
/?I think it's awesome that the Olympics will be in Vancouver, but there 
are a lot of people who are very opposed to it because of all the money 
and all the headaches they cause. Vancouver is bad enough as it is with 
traffic and everything. It remains to be seen how it will really be like 
come February, but I am hoping for the best,? /says Julie Robins, a BC 
native, who lives and commutes between Vancouver and Whistler.
 
Although millions of viewers across the globe will no doubt follow the 
Olympic action with enthusiasm and sportsmanship, it appears that the 
Vancouver Olympics won't be fun and games for everyone.
 
 
Posted/Forward by: Larry Kibby - l.kibby at frontier.com 
<mailto:l.kibby at frontier.com>
Host of Reznews Video's
http://ubroadcast.com/channel/reznews
 
Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain 
to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for 
research and educational purposes. This is in accordance with Title 17 
U. S. C. section 107.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
 
 

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From Tracy.Jacobs at PARLIAMENT.GOVT.NZ  Sun Jan 10 22:54:19 2010
From: Tracy.Jacobs at PARLIAMENT.GOVT.NZ (Tracy Jacobs)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:54:19 +1300
Subject: FW: Adoption of national Maori flag in New Zealand
Message-ID: <MON.11.JAN.2010.115419.1300.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Kia ora

I thought list members might be interested in this information on the adoption of a national Maori flag:


http://www.mch.govt.nz/nzflag/maori-flag.html

Guidelines for flying the national Māori flag
Introduction
Recently, Cabinet has noted that a preferred national Māori flag has been identified, and that it is intended to complement the New Zealand flag. Cabinet also noted that it is proposed that the flag will fly on certain buildings and structures and sites of national significance on Waitangi Day, and that government agencies may also fly  the flag at their discretion on Waitangi Day [CAB Min (09) 44/15 refers].

The national Māori flag was identified through a nationwide consultation process, as detailed below. While it does not carry official status, by virtue of its design, it is a symbol of this land which can complement the New Zealand flag. Flying the two flags together, on days of national significance like Waitangi Day, will symbolise and enhance the Crown-Māori relationship.


Nga mihi nui mo te tau hou (Happy New Year!)

Tracy Jacobs
Hansard Indexer


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 11 16:52:59 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:52:59 -0700
Subject: Giving new life to her native language, Ojibwe (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.11.JAN.2010.095259.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Giving new life to her native language, Ojibwe
Dorene Wiese hopes to revive language and is president of the American
Indian Association of Illinois

Dawn Turner Trice
January 11, 2010

When Dorene Wiese was a young girl she would listen to the stories her
family members told as they gathered around her kitchen table.

Relatives often reminisced about harvesting rice, or more precisely
manomin, from the marshes of northern Minnesota. They told stories of
getting into canoes and using hand paddles to knock the grains into
their baskets. It was an annual event, filled with ceremony that
brought their Ojibwe community together as they worked to parch,
separate and clean the rice, before bagging it for storage.

Wiese (pronounced WEE-see), who's now 60 and is the president of the
American Indian Association of Illinois, said that although the
stories were robust -- as a child she easily lost herself in them --
she realized years later that because her family no longer spoke the
Ojibwe language, their stories may have lost meaning and color by
being told in English.

So Wiese, who has a doctorate from Northern Illinois University, has
been working for the last three decades to revive the language. Her
research is in oral history, and she has studied the ways in which
learning is passed down through generations.

Access full article below:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-trice-11jan11,0,4759894.column


From teeter42 at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 12 05:15:01 2010
From: teeter42 at GMAIL.COM (Jennifer Teeter)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:15:01 +0900
Subject: Petition to Realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people in
 Japan
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JAN.2010.141501.0900.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

To the members of the ILAT listerv,

Currently, the Ramat Ainu Organization, the Asahikawa Ainu
Organization, and several other individuals and organization in Ainu
Mosir and Japan have drafted a petition calling on the Japanese
government to realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people.

As the petition outlines, the Japanese government continues to neglect
the rights of the Ainu people and has yet to acknowledge its
historical responsibility for wreaking havoc on Ainu society. In its
latest policy meeting report (July, 2009), the Japanese government
explicitly blamed the Ainu people for being robbed of their land,
language and culture stating that "the lack of the concept of
land-ownership or a written language made them ill-fit for
modernization."  The Japanese government's (il)logic is perpetuating
discrimination, breeding prejudice, and ensuring that the rights of
the Ainu people are not restored. Your support on this petition would
mean so much at this critical time!

I have attached the official English translation of the petition to
this email. If you are intereted in reading the Japanese petition, I
can forward that to you at your request. If you have any questions
about the petition, please feel free to write here at anytime and I
will do my best to assist you in communicating with the Ramat Ainu
Organization in Japanese if you do not already speak or write
Japanese.

In order to sign the petition electronically, all you would have to do
is send your name, (org name if relevant), and (org) address (at least
city name) to ramatglobal at gmail.com.

I've copied the official instructions from the PDF into the content of
this email below.

Feel free to pass this one along to others as you like and let me know
if you have any difficulties opening the pdf:)

Best wishes,
Jennifer Teeter
(Kyoto)
--------------
The following two items are the content of the petition. We would like
to make the first collection of signatures by the end of January.


   1. We urge you to recognize the historical responsibility of the
modern Japanese Imperial state in forcibly robbing the Ainu’s inherent
rights to land, resources and territory, and to implement the
restoration of indigenous rights and self-determination rights as
stipulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (adopted in 2007).


   2.  Upon agreement of the statement above, we urge you to engage in
charanke (dialogue) on equal footing with representatives from all
Ainu organizations and conduct a review of Ainu policies.

Please send your petition (group or individual) to the following
address. It is also possible to send a fax or email. Please be sure to
write your group’s name with the name of a representative and an
address in the content of your email, indicating you are in agreement
with the demands as outlined above. If you would like to send your
petition by fax or through the post, please email us and we will send
you a form to send back to us.


[Address] Ainu Ramat Organization (Attn: Dehara)

3-16-11 Takenotsuka Adachi-ku, Tokyo 121-0813 Japan

Telephone & Fax +81-(0)3-3860-2156 Email ramatglobal at gmail.com
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From KRUPNIKI at SI.EDU  Tue Jan 12 13:53:19 2010
From: KRUPNIKI at SI.EDU (Krupnik, Igor)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:53:19 -0500
Subject: Petition to Realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people
 in Japan
In-Reply-To: <4be85afc1001112115q493e2ec4n3781ce2e08332e70@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JAN.2010.085319.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

FYI

________________________________________
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jennifer Teeter [teeter42 at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:15 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Petition to Realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people in Japan

To the members of the ILAT listerv,

Currently, the Ramat Ainu Organization, the Asahikawa Ainu
Organization, and several other individuals and organization in Ainu
Mosir and Japan have drafted a petition calling on the Japanese
government to realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people.

As the petition outlines, the Japanese government continues to neglect
the rights of the Ainu people and has yet to acknowledge its
historical responsibility for wreaking havoc on Ainu society. In its
latest policy meeting report (July, 2009), the Japanese government
explicitly blamed the Ainu people for being robbed of their land,
language and culture stating that "the lack of the concept of
land-ownership or a written language made them ill-fit for
modernization."  The Japanese government's (il)logic is perpetuating
discrimination, breeding prejudice, and ensuring that the rights of
the Ainu people are not restored. Your support on this petition would
mean so much at this critical time!

I have attached the official English translation of the petition to
this email. If you are intereted in reading the Japanese petition, I
can forward that to you at your request. If you have any questions
about the petition, please feel free to write here at anytime and I
will do my best to assist you in communicating with the Ramat Ainu
Organization in Japanese if you do not already speak or write
Japanese.

In order to sign the petition electronically, all you would have to do
is send your name, (org name if relevant), and (org) address (at least
city name) to ramatglobal at gmail.com.

I've copied the official instructions from the PDF into the content of
this email below.

Feel free to pass this one along to others as you like and let me know
if you have any difficulties opening the pdf:)

Best wishes,
Jennifer Teeter
(Kyoto)
--------------
The following two items are the content of the petition. We would like
to make the first collection of signatures by the end of January.


   1. We urge you to recognize the historical responsibility of the
modern Japanese Imperial state in forcibly robbing the Ainu’s inherent
rights to land, resources and territory, and to implement the
restoration of indigenous rights and self-determination rights as
stipulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (adopted in 2007).


   2.  Upon agreement of the statement above, we urge you to engage in
charanke (dialogue) on equal footing with representatives from all
Ainu organizations and conduct a review of Ainu policies.

Please send your petition (group or individual) to the following
address. It is also possible to send a fax or email. Please be sure to
write your group’s name with the name of a representative and an
address in the content of your email, indicating you are in agreement
with the demands as outlined above. If you would like to send your
petition by fax or through the post, please email us and we will send
you a form to send back to us.


[Address] Ainu Ramat Organization (Attn: Dehara)

3-16-11 Takenotsuka Adachi-ku, Tokyo 121-0813 Japan

Telephone & Fax +81-(0)3-3860-2156 Email ramatglobal at gmail.com

From neskiem at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jan 13 04:01:33 2010
From: neskiem at GMAIL.COM (Neskie Manuel)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:01:33 -0800
Subject: recording sound through web
In-Reply-To: <59c9c4cc0912170515m57a2c1e5mc4c6af49d8f6595b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JAN.2010.200133.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

It's not what you asked for but there is Screencast-o-matic that
creates a screencast and can record the audio if you have a mic hooked
up.  So it can be done obviously.  You do need to install flash, which
most people have because they probably watch YouTube.

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> does anyone know of an application (or whether it's possible to write a java
> program) to record sound remotely? What I want to do is have a web form
> where someone can click on a word, use their computer to record the word
> (ideally without having to install extra software) and then have the file
> automatically saved on my server. There must be distance learning tools that
> do this sort of thing?
> Thanks,
> Claire
>



-- 
Neskie Manuel
Secwepemc Radio 91.1 FM
http://secwepemcradio.ath.cx
Ph: (866) 423-0911


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jan 13 22:17:35 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:17:35 -0700
Subject: CFP: SILS Deadline Extended
Message-ID: <WED.13.JAN.2010.151735.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

fwd msg

*17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium*

*“Language and Place”*

Call for Proposals

June 25 - 27, 2010

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon



*Proposal Due Date EXTENDED:  February 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm PST*



The University of Oregon and the Northwest Indian Language Institute are
pleased to announce

that we will be hosting the 17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages
Symposium

held June 25, 26, and 27, 2010. The University of Oregon, in Eugene,

sits on ancestral lands of the Kalapuya people.

* *



*Language and Place* are intrinsically tied together.  Indigenous thought
and lifeways are rooted in the places people have lived since time
immemorial.  With this thought in mind, please submit proposals that support
these ideas through educating and informing language workers, advocates,
programs, and linguists from around the world.



*Symposium session information*

We invite you to submit a proposal that will fit in one of four venues:
workshops, demonstrations, poster sessions, and panel sessions. The
symposium committee will select proposals that focus on language
documentation, revitalization, maintenance, methodology, research,
practices, and teaching which address and/or incorporate the *Language and
Place* theme.



We are especially seeking presentations that inform and educate Symposium
participants on the best practices in language revitalization/maintenance;
not presentations which primarily promote a specific company, product,
service, or solution. Sessions will range in time from 45, 60, and 90 minute
blocks.

* *

*Important dates*

Complete proposals must be received on *February 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm
PST*.  Online
and email submissions are highly encouraged!



The committee will contact you on or before *February 15, 2010* to let you
know if your proposal has been selected for presentation at the Symposium.  All
decisions are final.

* *

*Symposium waste-free goal*

In being mindful of our environment, our goal is to be a waste-free event.
Therefore we encourage presenters and participants alike to help in this
effort to avoid unnecessary waste or excessive use of paper. To this end, we
encourage presenters to offer digital materials to participants when at all
possible.  We would be glad to offer the Symposium website as a place for
participants to download materials before or after the Symposium.  Please
let us know if you would like to take advantage of this offer.



*Symposium proposals should include the following:*

Name of the person(s) who will be part of the session

Affiliation (tribe, nation, organization, etc.)

Title and description of the session - up to 300 words

Audio, visual, computer needs - **please note, we cannot provide lap top
computers*

Type of session (panel session, paper, poster session, presentation,
workshop)

Length of session (45, 60, 90 minutes)

Presenter(s) profile(s) - on a separate page please include the following
information about each presenter in your proposal: name, title (if
applicable), affiliation (tribe, nation, organization, university, etc.),
contact information (including email and phone number), and a biography of
no more than 100 words per presenter.

*Please indicate if you are willing to make your handouts digitally
available before and/or after the SILS



*Something Different at SILS 2010*

This year we would like to offer a space for language groups, alliances, and
organizations to meet.  If you are a leader of a language organization,
please send in a one page Meeting Proposal.  Be sure to include: your group
name, name and contact information for your group’s main person/contact,
expected number of participants, and the type of meeting you will be having
(business meeting, language/language family work group, open discussion
forum, etc.).  Also, indicate if the meeting is open for anyone to attend.  A
meeting agenda would be a good resource to include with the proposal, if
available.



*Please mail your session proposal information to:*

SILS 2010

NILI - University of Oregon

Attn: SILS Committee

1629 Moss Street

Eugene, Oregon   97403    USA



*Send via email to:*

sils2010 at uoregon.edu



*For updated conference information and documents visit the SILS 2010
website at:*



http://www.uoregon.edu/~nwili/SILS/SILS.html<http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Enwili/SILS/SILS.html>

* *

* *

* *

*Important Dates*

SILS Proposals EXTENDED to - February 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm PST

Notification of proposal acceptance - February 15, 2010
SILS 2010 - June 25, 26, and 27, 2010
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From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Thu Jan 14 13:50:29 2010
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:50:29 -0600
Subject: language learning through youtube
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From pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET  Fri Jan 15 18:49:56 2010
From: pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET (phil cash cash)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:49:56 -0700
Subject: New technology to keep old ways alive (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.15.JAN.2010.114956.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

New technology to keep old ways alive

14th January 2010
Australia

LEARNING the ways of wise elders and preserving the Fraser Coast’s  
heritage has been the focus of a community workshop held in Hervey Bay  
this week.
Fifteen indigenous people have been taking part in the Indigenous  
Knowledge Recording Workshop project at the Hervey Bay Sports and  
Leisure Centre.

Traditional owner of the region Mal Collinge hopes by teaching people  
how to use digital media it will encourage them to record elders’  
knowledge of the land.



Access full article below:

http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2010/01/14/new-technology-to-keep-old-ways-alive/

From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 18 17:41:07 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:41:07 -0700
Subject: State of the World's Indigenous Peoples (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JAN.2010.104107.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/sowip.html

Highlight Excerpt:

90 per cent of all languages will disappear within 100 years. It is usually
estimated that there are between 6,000
and 7,000 oral languages in the world today. Most of these languages are
spoken by very few people, while a
handful of them are spoken by an overwhelming majority of the world. About
97 per cent of the world’s population
speaks 4 per cent of its languages, while only 3 per cent speaks 96 per cent
of them. A great majority of these
languages are spoken by indigenous peoples, and many (if not most) of them
are in danger of becoming extinct.
Roughly 90 per cent of all existing languages may become extinct within the
next 100 years.

Dying languages, damaging communities. While some indigenous peoples are
successfully revitalising languages,
many others are fighting a losing battle, where languages are simply no
longer passed from one generation to the
next. Most governments are aware of this language crisis but funding is
often provided only for the recording of
languages, while limited funds are diverted to language revitalization
programmes. Language, furthermore, is not
only a communication tool, it is often linked to the land or region
traditionally occupied by indigenous peoples; it
is an essential component of one’s collective and individual identity and
therefore provides a sense of belonging
and community. When the language dies, that sense of community is damaged.
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From teeter42 at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 19 04:43:50 2010
From: teeter42 at GMAIL.COM (Jennifer Teeter)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:43:50 +0900
Subject: Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JAN.2010.134350.0900.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Dear ILAT subscribers

I thought this might be of interest to some of you or your collegaues.

Best wishes,
Jennifer Teeter
-------------------
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=173285

Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize
Prize Deadline:	2010-02-15 (in 28 days)
Date Submitted: 	2010-01-14
Announcement ID: 	173285
Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize

The Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize sponsored by the Aboriginal
History Group of the Canadian Historical Association, for the best
book written in English or in French dealing with the history of
Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.

Rationale – Historical studies dealing with Aboriginal peoples now
constitute a well-established and diverse body of scholarship in
Canada. This prize will help draw attention to Aboriginal history
while promoting its further growth and maturity.

Eligibility -- Scholarly books concerning the history of Aboriginal
peoples whose territory overlaps with that of the current Canadian
state, and/or books concerning Aboriginal people whose history
involves significant interaction with institutions (state,
ecclesiastic, corporate, or other) that are closely associated with
what would become Canada.

Adjudication Criteria -- The award is presented to the author(s) or
editor(s) of the best scholarly work in Canadian Aboriginal history.
The submitted title will build on theoretical, interpretive, and
descriptive work within a community of scholars and contribute to the
creation and transmission of knowledge. It must have been subjected to
peer review. The publisher need not be Canadian. The publication
should show potential readability by a wider audience.

Submission process – Books bearing an imprint of 2009 are eligible for
the 2010 prize. One copy of each entry should be sent to each of the
following six jury members by February 15, 2010.

Prize – The Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize consists of a
certificate (signed by president of the Aboriginal History Study Group
(AHSG) and by the president of the Canadian Historical Association
(CHA), and (when resources allow) a financial or some equivalent prize
such as a work of Aboriginal art.

Presentation of the prize The prize will be presented at the annual
meeting of the CHA during their awards ceremony.

Referees -- The adjudication committee will be appointed by the
president of the Aboriginal History Group from people who are members
of the Canadian Historical Association and members of the Aboriginal
History Group. The president’s selection of referees will be guided by
the following considerations: identifying people who are respected
within the discipline of history; trying to ensure that not only
academic historian's voices are represented on the committee.

Jury Members:

1) Keith Thor Carlson
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
9-Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK
S7N 5A5
keith.carlson at usask.ca
306-966-5902

2) Coll Thrush, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
University of British Columbia
Room 1297, 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
cthrush[at]interchange[dot]ubc[dot]ca
tel 604/827-3623
fax 604/822-6658

3) Jarvis Brownlie
brownlie at ms.umanitoba.ca
450 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2

4) Carolyn Podruchny
Department of History
York University
2140 Vari Hall
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
PH: 416-736-5123
email: carolynp at yorku.ca

5) P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G3

6) Jean Manore
The Department of History
Bishop's University
2600 College Street
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
J1M 1Z7
Tel: 819 822-9600
Fax: 819 822-9661

FRENCH VERSION:

Le Prix du livre d'histoire autochtone canadienne

Le Prix du livre d'histoire autochtone canadienne est offert par le
Groupe d'étude d'histoire autochtone de la Société historique du
Canada au meilleur livre rédigé en français ou en anglais portant sur
l'histoire des peuples autochtones au Canada.

Logique – Les recherches historiques portant sur les peuples
autochtones constituent maintenant un corpus bien établi et diversifié
d'érudition au Canada. Le prix contribuera à attirer l'attention sur
l'histoire autochtone tout en promouvant son développement et sa
maturité.

Critères d'admissibilité – Les livres savants qui portent sur
l'histoire des peuples autochtones dont le territoire chevauche celui
de l'État canadien actuel et/ou les livres qui portent sur l'histoire
de peuples autochtones dont l'histoire comporte une interdépendance
prononcée avec les institutions (étatiques, ecclésiastiques et
d'entreprises, ou autres) qui sont associées de près avec ce qui
deviendra le Canada.

Critères d'attribution – Le prix est remis à l'auteur (ou auteurs) ou
au rédacteur (ou rédacteurs) du meilleur ouvrage savant en histoire
autochtone. L'ouvrage soumis apportera de nouvelles théories,
interprétations et descriptions de l'histoire autochtone dans la
communauté érudite et contribuera à la création et diffusion du
savoir. L'ouvrage aura été soumis à une évaluation par les pairs. La
maison d'édition n'est pas obligatoirement canadienne. La publication
devrait avoir le potentiel d'une grande lisibilité auprès du public.

Processus de soumission – Les livres publiés en 2009 sont admissibles
au prix 2010. Une copie du livre doit être envoyée à chaque membres du
jury avant le 15 février 2010.

Prix – Le Prix du livre d'histoire autochtone consiste en un
certificat signé par le président du Groupe d'étude de l'histoire
autochtone (GEHA) et le président de la Société historique du Canada
(SHC), et (fonds permettant) un prix en argent ou son équivalent, tel
une œuvre d'art autochtone.

Remise du Prix – Le prix sera présenté lors du Congrès annuel de la SHC

Membres du comité – Le comité d'attribution sera nommé par le
président du Groupe d'histoire autochtone. Les membres du comité
seront des membres du GEHA et de la SHC. Le président sera guidé dans
sa sélection par les considérations suivantes : identification des
personnes qui sont respectées au sein de la discipline de l'histoire;
pour s'assurer que des historiens autres que le personnel enseignant
soient représentés sur le comité.

Membres :

1) Keith Thor Carlson
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
9-Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK
S7N 5A5
keith.carlson at usask.ca
306-966-5902

2) Coll Thrush, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
University of British Columbia
Room 1297, 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
cthrush[at]interchange[dot]ubc[dot]ca
tel 604/827-3623
fax 604/822-6658

3) Jarvis Brownlie
brownlie at ms.umanitoba.ca
450 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2

4) Carolyn Podruchny
Department of History
York University
2140 Vari Hall
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
PH: 416-736-5123
email: carolynp at yorku.ca

5) P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G3

6) Jean Manore
The Department of History
Bishop's University
2600 College Street
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
J1M 1Z7
Tel: 819 822-9600
Fax: 819 822-9661
	Keith Carlson
History Department
University of Saskatchewan
9 Campus Dr.
Saskatoon SK
S7N 5A5

Email: keith.carlson at usask.ca
Visit the website at http://www.cha-shc.ca/splashpage.html


From rrlapier at AOL.COM  Tue Jan 19 22:44:20 2010
From: rrlapier at AOL.COM (rrlapier at AOL.COM)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:44:20 EST
Subject: Fwd: Passing of William Demmert Jr
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JAN.2010.174420.EST.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subj: Passing of William Demmert Jr



Friends It with a very sad heart that I inform you that  our friend and the 
leader of our research partnership passed away this morning  Janary 19 at 
5:00AM. He was 75 years old. His passing was peaceful with family  at his 
side. For those who were not aware of his illness Bill had lymphoma  which 
turned to lung cancer. I have known Bill for nearly 40 years, having  worked 
directly with him for 30 years on many efforts. He had a very wide  circle of 
friends and will always be known as a very generous man with his  time, 
friendship and leadership. I will miss him deeply; we will all miss him.  
Arrangments are pending.. David  Beaulieu
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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Wed Jan 20 00:18:35 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:18:35 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Passing of William Demmert Jr
In-Reply-To: <1357a.5c42a44.38878fc4@aol.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JAN.2010.191835.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Prayers and thoughts go with you and your friend/colleague. I have 
experienced such loss after working with friends/colleagues for many 
years. I lost a very dear one in 1990 and there is hardly a day goes by 
I do not think of him and wish he were here to discuss some theory or 
idea. I guess that is how long friendships last.

-------
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon



rrlapier at AOL.COM wrote:
> Subj: Passing of William Demmert Jr
>
>      
>     Friends It with a very sad heart that I inform you that our friend
>     and the leader of our research partnership passed away this
>     morning Janary 19 at 5:00AM. He was 75 years old. His passing was
>     peaceful with family at his side. For those who were not aware of
>     his illness Bill had lymphoma which turned to lung cancer. I have
>     known Bill for nearly 40 years, having worked directly with him
>     for 30 years on many efforts. He had a very wide circle of friends
>     and will always be known as a very generous man with his time,
>     friendship and leadership. I will miss him deeply; we will all
>     miss him. Arrangments are pending.. David Beaulieu
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From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Wed Jan 20 14:11:03 2010
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:11:03 -0600
Subject: Fwd: Passing of William Demmert Jr
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 21 17:22:12 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:22:12 -0700
Subject: Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JAN.2010.102212.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future
The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO warns that 19 Cambodian
languages are at risk of extinction

Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh 21 January 2010

More than 20 languages are spoken in Cambodia, but most are minority
languages and face extinction in the coming decades.

Robert Carmichael has this report from Phnom Penh.

Jean-Michel Filippi is in a race. As the foremost scholar of S'aoch,
the language of one of Cambodia's minority tribes, he has only a few
years to record the language before it may be lost forever. To date he
has recorded 4,000 words in S'aoch. His next step is to write a
grammar book on the language.

Filippi says just 10 people are fluent in S'aoch and none uses the
language in their daily life. That makes S'aoch the most endangered
language in Cambodia. In a decade it will likely be extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodias-Minority-Languages-Face-Bleak-Future-82250487.html


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 21 19:08:57 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:08:57 -0700
Subject: Samson & Delilah makes Oscar short list (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JAN.2010.120857.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Samson & Delilah makes Oscar short list

Peter Mitchell | 21st January 2010

ALICE Springs filmmaker Warwick Thornton and his award-winning drama
Samson and Delilah have taken a major leap toward Oscar glory.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced Samson
and Delilah made the short list for the best foreign language Oscar.

Access full article below:
http://www.ballinaadvocate.com.au/story/2010/01/21/samson-delilah-makes-oscar-short-list/

~~~

ILAT note: Filmed in both Walpiri, an Aboriginal language, and English.


From jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jan 22 22:09:38 2010
From: jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Joe sanchez)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:09:38 -0700
Subject: Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JAN.2010.150938.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

yes

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:22 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)

Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future
The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO warns that 19 Cambodian
languages are at risk of extinction

Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh 21 January 2010

More than 20 languages are spoken in Cambodia, but most are minority
languages and face extinction in the coming decades.

Robert Carmichael has this report from Phnom Penh.

Jean-Michel Filippi is in a race. As the foremost scholar of S'aoch,
the language of one of Cambodia's minority tribes, he has only a few
years to record the language before it may be lost forever. To date he
has recorded 4,000 words in S'aoch. His next step is to write a
grammar book on the language.

Filippi says just 10 people are fluent in S'aoch and none uses the
language in their daily life. That makes S'aoch the most endangered
language in Cambodia. In a decade it will likely be extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodias-Minority-Languages-Face-Bleak-Future-82250487.html


From jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jan 22 22:09:43 2010
From: jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Joe sanchez)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:09:43 -0700
Subject: Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JAN.2010.150943.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thank you

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:22 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)

Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future
The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO warns that 19 Cambodian
languages are at risk of extinction

Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh 21 January 2010

More than 20 languages are spoken in Cambodia, but most are minority
languages and face extinction in the coming decades.

Robert Carmichael has this report from Phnom Penh.

Jean-Michel Filippi is in a race. As the foremost scholar of S'aoch,
the language of one of Cambodia's minority tribes, he has only a few
years to record the language before it may be lost forever. To date he
has recorded 4,000 words in S'aoch. His next step is to write a
grammar book on the language.

Filippi says just 10 people are fluent in S'aoch and none uses the
language in their daily life. That makes S'aoch the most endangered
language in Cambodia. In a decade it will likely be extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodias-Minority-Languages-Face-Bleak-Future-82250487.html


From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jan 23 01:24:13 2010
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:24:13 -0700
Subject: Searching for Precedents for Having Native Elders as Fully
 Enfranchised Members of MA Thesis Committee
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JAN.2010.182413.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Taanshi, hello!

I am earching for precedents for having an Native Elder(s) as fully
enfranchised Members of a MA thesis committee.  My thesis incorporates video
documentation, storytelling, oral history, linguistic analysis of a Native
language done through a reflexive and collaborative process with the fluent
speakers involved.  As the knowledge and direction of one Elder in
particular is essential for me to be able to do the project, I would like to
ask her to be on my thesis commitee.  However, I need to make a case for
this and the dean our graduate school (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge,
Alberta, Canada) has asked me to do some research.  She is very supportive
but I need to supply her with hard facts so she can go to the president of
the university with my request and hopefully set some new policy.

Kihchi-maarsii por toñ aad!   Thanks for your help!

Eekoshi pitamaa. That is it for now.
Heather Souter
MA Candidate, Michif Language and Linguistics
University of Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada
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From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jan 23 20:54:10 2010
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:54:10 -0600
Subject: New Avenue for theGrassroots to Access Funding for
 Culture/Language Revitalization/Stabilization Programs for Youth
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JAN.2010.145410.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Taanshi,Good News!  Community-based groups (in communities larger than
1,000) in Canada needing funding to run cultural and language programs for
youth, including language camps can now apply directly to Heritage Canada!
Finally, it is possible that funding will start flowing to grassroots
organizations without having to transit umbrella organizations or
centralized Aboriginal political structures!  Let's hope we start seeing
some more bang for the few bucks we get for language
revitalization/stabilization!
Eekoshi pitamaa.  That is it for now.
Heather


Government of Canada Launches Call for Proposals for Urban Aboriginal Youth
Projects
http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/minstr/moore/cdm-mc/cd-ns-eng.cfm?action=doc&TpID=1&DocIDCd=CR092224

*WINNIPEG, January 11, 2010 -* On behalf of the Honourable James Moore,
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, Shelly Glover,
Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages and Member of Parliament
(Saint Boniface), today launched the Cultural Connections for Aboriginal
Youth <http://pch.gc.ca/pgm/pa-app/pgm/ccja-ccay/guide-eng.cfm> component
(formally known as Urban Multipurpose Aboriginal Youth Centres) of the
Aboriginal
Peoples' Program <http://pch.gc.ca/pgm/pa-app/index-eng.cfm>

"Young Aboriginal people represent an increasingly important segment of the
Canadian population. By investing in the potential of urban Aboriginal youth
and providing them with culturally-focussed programming, we are contributing
to the social and economic prosperity of current and future generations,"
said Minister Moore.

"This initiative is an incredibly important one for urban Aboriginal youth
across the country," said Mrs. Glover. "This kind of programming will enable
them to become more active participants in shaping their future and in
building strong communities and families."

On November 17, 2009, Minister Moore announced a six-year extension of
Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth. The $150-million investment will
ensure continued support to Aboriginal youth aged 10 to 24, living in urban
settings across Canada, by providing programming that incorporates
Aboriginal values, cultures, and traditional practices in projects and
activities designed to strengthen their cultural identity, improve their
social, economic, and personal prospects, and enable them to fully
participate in Canadian society.

Eligible organizations are invited to submit project proposals. For more
information on how to apply, including the funding application guide, visit
www.canadianheritage.gc.ca. <http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/>
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From charles.riley at YALE.EDU  Sun Jan 24 19:39:23 2010
From: charles.riley at YALE.EDU (Riley, Charles)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:39:23 -0500
Subject: Searching for Precedents for Having Native Elders as Fully
 Enfranchised Members of MA Thesis Committee
In-Reply-To: <6d8c8c411001221724y134d1f2ai8f56bc3bdd228022@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.24.JAN.2010.143923.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi Heather,

This is the closest precedent I could find:

http://www.indigenousportal.com/Language/PhD-thesis-written-in-Mi-kmaq-breaks-ground.html

The article says that Metallic sought out a Mikmaq elder to serve on the committee, and that Eleanor Johnson, now a professor at Cape Breton, agreed to serve as chair.  I can't tell clearly from the article whether Johnson is an elder as well as professor, or whether among the members of his committee there may be another person serving who is an elder, but this gives you something to start with.

Charles Riley


________________________________________
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Heather Souter [hsouter at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:24 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Searching for Precedents for Having Native Elders as Fully Enfranchised Members of MA Thesis Committee

Taanshi, hello!

I am earching for precedents for having an Native Elder(s) as fully enfranchised Members of a MA thesis committee.  My thesis incorporates video documentation, storytelling, oral history, linguistic analysis of a Native language done through a reflexive and collaborative process with the fluent speakers involved.  As the knowledge and direction of one Elder in particular is essential for me to be able to do the project, I would like to ask her to be on my thesis commitee.  However, I need to make a case for this and the dean our graduate school (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) has asked me to do some research.  She is very supportive but I need to supply her with hard facts so she can go to the president of the university with my request and hopefully set some new policy.

Kihchi-maarsii por toñ aad!   Thanks for your help!

Eekoshi pitamaa. That is it for now.
Heather Souter
MA Candidate, Michif Language and Linguistics
University of Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada


From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Mon Jan 25 07:22:57 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:22:57 -0500
Subject: Call For Papers....
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.022257.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


  *Native American Literature Panel Of The South Central Modern Language
  Association: Call For Papers *


Call for Papers: The Native American Literature Panel of the South 
Central Modern Language Association invites papers or 500-word abstracts 
to be considered for the annual convention in Fort Worth, Texas, from 
October 28-30, 2010. Papers may pertain to any aspect of Native American 
literature and should be no more than twenty minutes in length. Please 
e-mail abstracts or papers by March 26, 2010, to Kirstin Squint at 
kirstin.squint at gmail.com <mailto:kirstin.squint at gmail.com> This e-mail 
address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to 
view it .

For more information about the conference, consult the SCMLA website: 
http://www.ou.edu/scmla/.

Kirstin L. Squint, Ph.D.
Department of English and Philosophy
Southern University, Baton Rouge

 
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wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 25 17:50:37 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:50:37 -0700
Subject: Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha
 Language Software (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.105037.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha Language Software

Posted : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:02:13 GMT
Author : Rosetta Stone Inc.
Category : Press Release

ARLINGTON, Va. - (Business Wire) Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST), a
leading provider of technology-based language learning solutions,
announced today the release of the Chitimacha language version of
Rosetta Stone® software for exclusive use by the Chitimacha Tribe of
Louisiana. Despite the death of the last fluent speaker in 1940, the
Chitimacha tribe is reviving its language through collaboration with
the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program. The Rosetta Stone
immersion approach enables language learners to develop everyday
proficiency by linking meaning and structure of a new language
directly to real world objects and events without translation. The
Chitimacha language version of the software has been created through a
Rosetta Stone corporate grant with all distribution rights belonging
to the tribe.

“We are honored that the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program can
help the Chitimacha reclaim a piece of their heritage and cultural
identity,” said Marion Bittinger, manager of the Rosetta Stone
Endangered Language Program. “We are optimistic our work with
indigenous groups will be a step towards reversing the tide of global
language extinction.”

With no native Chitimacha speakers in existence, the tribe’s Cultural
Department began its language revitalization program in 1997, using
wax cylinder recordings and field notes made 65 years before by
renowned linguist Morris Swadesh. The recordings and field notes
allowed a few tribal members to immerse themselves in the complex
grammar and vocabulary of the dormant language and learn to pronounce
the difficult sequences of sounds. As a result of the grant, Rosetta
Stone staff members collaborated in the adaptation of the software to
teach concepts and structures using only the Chitimacha language.

“Language is really the heart of any culture. It’s not just about
learning the words – it’s about the connection to your past,” said
Kimberly Walden, Cultural Director of the Chitimacha Tribe and a key
figure in the three-year effort to customize, record and produce the
software. “The Rosetta Stone component of our language revitalization
program will transform the way the Chitimacha language is taught. It
will allow us to reach our entire membership regardless of their
location and will enable the tribe as a whole to communicate as we did
more than 75 years ago.”

Learning with Rosetta Stone is a natural choice for language
revitalization programs as the award-winning solutions help users
develop language proficiency without translation, memorization or
conjugation tables. The Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program has
developed software for several indigenous languages, including Mohawk
(Kanien’keha), the coastal dialect of Inupiaq in Alaska and Inuttitut
in Labrador, Canada. The North Slope Inupiaq and Navajo languages are
also currently under development with Rosetta Stone.

For more information please visit pr.RosettaStone.com.

Access full article below:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/rosetta-stone-endangered-language-program-releases-chitimacha-language-software,1134301.shtml


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 25 17:53:38 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:53:38 -0700
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CProtecting_Our_Language=E2=80=9Dand_?= the
 Dakota way
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.105338.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

“Protecting Our Language” and the Dakota way

By Scott Tedrick, Editor
Advocate Tribune
Mon Jan 25, 2010, 09:35 AM CST
Granite Falls, Minn. (USA)

There may be nothing more important to a culture’s identity than its language.

According to National Geographic explorer Wade Davis, at the time
today’s typical adult was born there were 6,000 languages spoken on
earth. Today, “fully half” are no longer being taught to school
children.

Looking at a map of Minnesota, names such as Minneapolis, Kandiyohi,
Mankato dot the landscape in reference to the Dakota  language – the
very first spoken in the state.

Yet, the existence of the very language from which the word
“Minnesota” derives is in danger of being lost. In fact, after the
recent passing of two Dakota elders, including local Rev. Gary
Cavender, only nine first generation speakers remain to pass on the
vernacular as it was once spoken – true to the sound and inflections
as it had been expressed, at one time, in abundance.

Such knowledge should indicate what makes “Dakota Wicohan’s” mission:
to preserve Dakota as a living language, and through it, transmit
Dakota lifeways to future generations,  so important to all
Minnesotans.

Access full article below:
http://www.granitefallsnews.com/news/x1090818806/-Protecting-Our-Language-and-the-Dakota-way


From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jan 25 17:56:34 2010
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:56:34 -0500
Subject: Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha
 Language Software (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <76621a9c1001250950h2f2f3faco25caa4bdc9dfe48@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.125634.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

does anyone have feedback from groups that have used Rosetta software? (e.g.
about the recording/materials process and what happens afterward?)
Claire

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha Language
> Software
>
> Posted : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:02:13 GMT
> Author : Rosetta Stone Inc.
> Category : Press Release
>
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From okimah at MAC.COM  Mon Jan 25 18:00:41 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:00:41 -0500
Subject: Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha
 Language Software (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <76621a9c1001250950h2f2f3faco25caa4bdc9dfe48@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.130041.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

We did a full episode on the Chitamacha Rosette Stone project earlier  
this year for our documentary series "Finding Our Talk 3" that aired  
on APTN here in Canada.  Its was a great opportunity to see and hear  
about the community project from its beginnings to its  
implementation.  It's great to hear that they've successfully  
launched it.  Visit www.mushkeg.ca for those interested in knowing  
more about the episode and series.

Paul Rickard

On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

> Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha  
> Language Software
>
> Posted : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:02:13 GMT
> Author : Rosetta Stone Inc.
> Category : Press Release
>
> ARLINGTON, Va. - (Business Wire) Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST), a
> leading provider of technology-based language learning solutions,
> announced today the release of the Chitimacha language version of
> Rosetta Stone® software for exclusive use by the Chitimacha Tribe of
> Louisiana. Despite the death of the last fluent speaker in 1940, the
> Chitimacha tribe is reviving its language through collaboration with
> the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program. The Rosetta Stone
> immersion approach enables language learners to develop everyday
> proficiency by linking meaning and structure of a new language
> directly to real world objects and events without translation. The
> Chitimacha language version of the software has been created through a
> Rosetta Stone corporate grant with all distribution rights belonging
> to the tribe.
>
> “We are honored that the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program can
> help the Chitimacha reclaim a piece of their heritage and cultural
> identity,” said Marion Bittinger, manager of the Rosetta Stone
> Endangered Language Program. “We are optimistic our work with
> indigenous groups will be a step towards reversing the tide of global
> language extinction.”
>
> With no native Chitimacha speakers in existence, the tribe’s Cultural
> Department began its language revitalization program in 1997, using
> wax cylinder recordings and field notes made 65 years before by
> renowned linguist Morris Swadesh. The recordings and field notes
> allowed a few tribal members to immerse themselves in the complex
> grammar and vocabulary of the dormant language and learn to pronounce
> the difficult sequences of sounds. As a result of the grant, Rosetta
> Stone staff members collaborated in the adaptation of the software to
> teach concepts and structures using only the Chitimacha language.
>
> “Language is really the heart of any culture. It’s not just about
> learning the words – it’s about the connection to your past,” said
> Kimberly Walden, Cultural Director of the Chitimacha Tribe and a key
> figure in the three-year effort to customize, record and produce the
> software. “The Rosetta Stone component of our language revitalization
> program will transform the way the Chitimacha language is taught. It
> will allow us to reach our entire membership regardless of their
> location and will enable the tribe as a whole to communicate as we did
> more than 75 years ago.”
>
> Learning with Rosetta Stone is a natural choice for language
> revitalization programs as the award-winning solutions help users
> develop language proficiency without translation, memorization or
> conjugation tables. The Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program has
> developed software for several indigenous languages, including Mohawk
> (Kanien’keha), the coastal dialect of Inupiaq in Alaska and Inuttitut
> in Labrador, Canada. The North Slope Inupiaq and Navajo languages are
> also currently under development with Rosetta Stone.
>
> For more information please visit pr.RosettaStone.com.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/rosetta-stone-endangered- 
> language-program-releases-chitimacha-language-software,1134301.shtml


From okimah at MAC.COM  Mon Jan 25 18:06:35 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:06:35 -0500
Subject: Facebook and social media
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.130635.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From gforger at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 25 18:14:46 2010
From: gforger at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Garry Forger)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:14:46 -0700
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <C2BE3AB5-771E-438E-A483-0DA7EB904699@mac.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.111446.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
(CERCLL) http://cercll.arizona.edu/ have links on the homepage to both
Twitter and Facebook, we use these to put out announcements about what is
going on with our organization, and news items about language issues in
general. 

Garry Forger

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:07 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jan 26 00:22:53 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:22:53 -0700
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <021201ca9dea$46cf2890$d46d79b0$@arizona.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.172253.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

One very good possibility for creating an advocacy network is to adapt
Ning, a freely available social networking platform.  This would take
some minor effort and commitment from somebody (a grad student, a
language advocate, or tribal member/community) but it would be nice to
have a more in-depth social advocacy-based networking in one form or
another!

ILAT could become ILAN (Indigenous Languages Advocacy Network)...

;-)

Phil Cash Cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce)
ILAT mg, UofA


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Garry Forger
<gforger at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
> (CERCLL) http://cercll.arizona.edu/ have links on the homepage to both
> Twitter and Facebook, we use these to put out announcements about what is
> going on with our organization, and news items about language issues in
> general.
>
> Garry Forger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:07 AM
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
>
> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such
> as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or
> announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this
> list service is receiving information about what's happening from
> various users, but I also think the whole social media network is
> another great opportunity to share this information and create a
> community.
>


From margaret.florey at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 26 07:11:29 2010
From: margaret.florey at GMAIL.COM (Margaret Florey)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:11:29 +1100
Subject: Sharing information on Facebook
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.181129.1100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi ILAT list-ers,



in response to Paul M Rickard's query about whether anyone is using
Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or announcements,
I thought I'd let you know about the Resource Network for Linguistic
Diversity. We have a Facebook Group at <
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=259697359829> that is used
to share resources for endangered languages. Our web site at <www.rnld.org>
has many different kinds of resources, including grants, training programs,
links to other blogs (including ILAT), language documentation technology and
strategies for language maintenance. RNLD also has a mailing list to which
you can post queries or share information. I hope you'll visit us!



all the best,

Margaret


-- 
Margaret Florey
Consultant linguist
Director, Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity <www.rnld.org>

Email: Margaret.Florey at gmail.com
Ph: +61 (0)4 3186-3727 (mob.)
skype: margaret_florey
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From dave_pearson at SIL.ORG  Tue Jan 26 09:57:19 2010
From: dave_pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:57:19 -0000
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <C2BE3AB5-771E-438E-A483-0DA7EB904699@mac.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.095719.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
Language.

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862?m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820

Dave Pearson

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Tue Jan 26 14:02:41 2010
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:02:41 -0600
Subject: Facebook and social media
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.080241.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

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From martin at KAMUSI.ORG  Tue Jan 26 14:35:14 2010
From: martin at KAMUSI.ORG (Martin Benjamin, Kamusi Project International)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:35:14 +0100
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <C2BE3AB5-771E-438E-A483-0DA7EB904699@mac.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.153514.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The African Languages group on Facebook (links below) has been used to
mobilize volunteers for the ANLoc 100 African Locales initiative, with quite
positive results.  Many Facebook members were among the participants who
have completed 70 locales so far, of which 54 are in final review for
acceptance by CLDR. The group now has over 1500 members.

For the UNESCO Year of Languages, many group members posted their status in
their favorite African language on the 15th of every month.

I have also been able to use Twitter constructively to find volunteers for
the ANLoc project.  For example, by searching Twitter for mentions of
"Malagasy", I was able to locate a group of people who were able to complete
several locales for Madagascar.  This technique has its limits, however -
neither Twitter, Facebook, nor any other social media have been able to
attract volunteers for some big languages such as Kirundi, nor any of the
languages of Nigeria other than the big three (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo).

Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=search&gid=4676065512

100 African Locales initiative: http://www.it46.se/afrigen

ANLoc (African Network for Localization):
http://www.africanlocalisation.net/

Best,
Martin Benjamin
http://kamusi.org

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Paul M Rickard <okimah at mac.com> wrote:

> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such as
> Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or announcements
> on these sites.  One of the great things about this list service is
> receiving information about what's happening from various users, but I also
> think the whole social media network is another great opportunity to share
> this information and create a community.
>
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From mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM  Tue Jan 26 15:25:53 2010
From: mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM (Mona Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:25:53 -0600
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <820221402.904716.1264514561990.JavaMail.root@vms181.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.092553.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ANd the Dakota Language Program at the University of Minnesota has a  
facebook page for communication...


On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:

> Mitakuyapi,
>
> I have a twitter account for my organization and I set it up to  
> tweet "something the elders say in Dakotah that you wouldn't learn  
> in a college class."  I try to send something out every Monday.   
> Phrases such as "my condolences."  Unfortunately, without the audio  
> you wouldn't learn the pronunciation unless you have someone to ask.
>
> We also have an account on youtube and have posted two "movies"  
> which are narrated books.  We are trying to get all 80 plus of our  
> books narrated.
>
> Our organization also has a facebook page and we put links to those  
> youtube videos on our facebook page also.
>
> Getting all of our language learning materials on the internet and  
> creating computer related materials  is actually the focus of our  
> organization this year.
>
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at SIL.ORG> wrote:
>
> Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
> Language.
>
> http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862? 
> m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820
>
> Dave Pearson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
> ]
> On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
> Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
>
> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such
> as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or
> announcements on these sites. One of the great things about this
> list service is receiving information about what's happening from
> various users, but I also think the whole social media network is
> another great opportunity to share this information and create a
> community.

_______________________
Mona M. Smith
media artist/producer/director
Allies, LLC

Allies: media/art
4720 32nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
763-219-1696

Indian Treaty Signers Project
Martin Case, Director
5001 1/2 34th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
indiantreatysigners at gmail.com

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From okimah at MAC.COM  Tue Jan 26 16:09:23 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:09:23 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.110923.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

An short excerpt of the Chitimacha episode from the documentary  
series Finding Our Talk 3 is now on Youtube.  The episode looks into  
the language revitalization of the Chitimach community in Louisiana  
using Rosetta Stone software.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzFPDuadek


From mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM  Tue Jan 26 16:44:47 2010
From: mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM (Mona Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:44:47 -0600
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <B70D9FB1-CAF1-43CE-82D3-D7795302CC20@alliesmediaart.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.104447.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Found some more NA indigenous language groups on Facebook:
Dakota Student Language Society
Tusweca Tiospaye Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit
Lakota Language Consortium
Inuktitut Language
Menominee Language
Cherokee Language
Inuit Language
Athapaskan Language Group for N, America

There could easily be more.

And many of my FB friends use the Dakota language on FB...sometimes  
translating, and sometimes not.


On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Mona Smith wrote:

> ANd the Dakota Language Program at the University of Minnesota has a  
> facebook page for communication...
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:
>
>> Mitakuyapi,
>>
>> I have a twitter account for my organization and I set it up to  
>> tweet "something the elders say in Dakotah that you wouldn't learn  
>> in a college class."  I try to send something out every Monday.   
>> Phrases such as "my condolences."  Unfortunately, without the audio  
>> you wouldn't learn the pronunciation unless you have someone to ask.
>>
>> We also have an account on youtube and have posted two "movies"  
>> which are narrated books.  We are trying to get all 80 plus of our  
>> books narrated.
>>
>> Our organization also has a facebook page and we put links to those  
>> youtube videos on our facebook page also.
>>
>> Getting all of our language learning materials on the internet and  
>> creating computer related materials  is actually the focus of our  
>> organization this year.
>>
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2010, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at SIL.ORG> wrote:
>>
>> Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
>> Language.
>>
>> http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862?m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820
>>
>> Dave Pearson
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
>> ]
>> On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
>> Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
>> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>> Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
>>
>> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such
>> as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or
>> announcements on these sites. One of the great things about this
>> list service is receiving information about what's happening from
>> various users, but I also think the whole social media network is
>> another great opportunity to share this information and create a
>> community.
>
> _______________________
> Mona M. Smith
> media artist/producer/director
> Allies, LLC
>
> Allies: media/art
> 4720 32nd Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN 55406
> 763-219-1696
>
> Indian Treaty Signers Project
> Martin Case, Director
> 5001 1/2 34th Ave. South
> Minneapolis, MN 55406
> indiantreatysigners at gmail.com
>
> http://www.alliesmediaart.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

_______________________
Mona M. Smith
media artist/producer/director
Allies, LLC

Allies: media/art
4720 32nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
763-219-1696

Indian Treaty Signers Project
Martin Case, Director
5001 1/2 34th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
indiantreatysigners at gmail.com

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From hal1403 at YAHOO.COM  Tue Jan 26 22:22:08 2010
From: hal1403 at YAHOO.COM (Haley De Korne)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:22:08 -0800
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <466E5BDE-05B9-4365-9A0C-E6A97BEBFDCD@alliesmediaart.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.142208.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

And 2 more FB groups:

Noongwa e-Anishinaabemjig: People Who Speak Anishinaabemowin Today
Anishnaabemowin SAVE THE LANGUAGE!!

Both host interesting discussions & announcements from time to time.
Best, Haley

"Language is not merely a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules.  It is a flash of the human spirit, the means by which the soul of each particular culture reaches into the material world.  Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

Wade Davis

--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Mona Smith <mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM> wrote:

From: Mona Smith <mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM>
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 11:44 AM

Found some more NA indigenous language groups on Facebook:Dakota Student Language Society
Tusweca Tiospaye Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit
Lakota Language Consortium
Inuktitut Language
Menominee Language
Cherokee Language
Inuit Language
Athapaskan Language Group for N, America
There could easily be more.
And many of my FB friends use the Dakota language on FB...sometimes translating, and sometimes not.  


On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Mona Smith wrote:
ANd the Dakota Language Program at the University of Minnesota has a facebook page for communication...

On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:
Mitakuyapi,

I have a twitter account for my organization and I set it up to tweet "something the elders say in Dakotah that you wouldn't learn in a college class."  I try to send something out every Monday.  Phrases such as "my condolences."  Unfortunately, without the audio you wouldn't learn the pronunciation unless you have someone to ask.

We also have an account on youtube and have posted two "movies" which are narrated books.  We are trying to get all 80 plus of our books narrated.

Our organization also has a facebook page and we put links to those youtube videos on our facebook page also.

Getting all of our language learning materials on the internet and creating computer related materials  is actually the focus of our organization this year.


Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language Program

On Jan 26, 2010, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at SIL.ORG> wrote: Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
Language.

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862?m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820

Dave Pearson

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such 
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or 
announcements on these sites. One of the great things about this 
list service is receiving information about what's happening from 
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is 
another great opportunity to share this information and create a 
community.

 _______________________Mona M. Smithmedia artist/producer/directorAllies, LLC 
Allies: media/art4720 32nd Avenue SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406763-219-1696
Indian Treaty Signers ProjectMartin Case, Director5001 1/2 34th Ave. SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406indiantreatysigners at gmail.com
http://www.alliesmediaart.com









 

 _______________________Mona M. Smithmedia artist/producer/directorAllies, LLC 
Allies: media/art4720 32nd Avenue SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406763-219-1696
Indian Treaty Signers ProjectMartin Case, Director5001 1/2 34th Ave. SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406indiantreatysigners at gmail.com
http://www.alliesmediaart.com









 



      
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From sikozujohnson at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jan 27 07:33:51 2010
From: sikozujohnson at GMAIL.COM (Sikozu Johnson)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:33:51 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube
In-Reply-To: <78DEEC70-060A-4A61-938B-67CF0449A0AB@mac.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.023351.0500.>

Waciye,

Does anyone know where a girl might get a COPY of the Chitimacha program?

- Anna Johnson

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Paul M Rickard <okimah at mac.com> wrote:

> An short excerpt of the Chitimacha episode from the documentary series
> Finding Our Talk 3 is now on Youtube.  The episode looks into the language
> revitalization of the Chitimach community in Louisiana using Rosetta Stone
> software.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzFPDuadek
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From cspaulding at ROSETTASTONE.COM  Wed Jan 27 14:10:30 2010
From: cspaulding at ROSETTASTONE.COM (Spaulding, Craig)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:10:30 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube
In-Reply-To: <ff7deb831001262333q768a81e5r1ef4647dc6e0eda8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.091030.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

At this point in time the Chitimacha have made the decision to distribute the product to tribal members only. This may change in the future, however they felt like tribal members need to be given priority at this point and for the next year or so. If you are a tribal member, please contact me off list and I will put you in contact with the Cultural Director (if you aren't already) who is in charge of distribution.

Craig Spaulding

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sikozu Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:34 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube

Waciye,

Does anyone know where a girl might get a COPY of the Chitimacha program?

- Anna Johnson
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Paul M Rickard <okimah at mac.com<mailto:okimah at mac.com>> wrote:
An short excerpt of the Chitimacha episode from the documentary series Finding Our Talk 3 is now on Youtube.  The episode looks into the language revitalization of the Chitimach community in Louisiana using Rosetta Stone software.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzFPDuadek

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From okimah at MAC.COM  Wed Jan 27 19:32:35 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:35 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk video clips on Youtube channel
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.143235.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Uploaded more video clips from our documentary series "Finding Our  
Talk" that looks at the state indigenous languages around the world  
and the trailer for "From Brooklyn and Back" (Little Caughnawaga) on  
our Mushkeg Media Youtube channel. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/user/MushkegMedia

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 28 05:54:20 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:54:20 -0700
Subject: On language and Ktunaxa women (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.225420.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

KOOTENAY WOMAN
On language and Ktunaxa women

Published: January 27, 2010 11:00 AM
by Brian Coombs, Kootenay News Advertiser

The period when the Ktunaxa first met white settlers to the present is
just a drop in the river of time they have called this region home.
For 10,000 years prior the world was a different place.

“We didn’t so much live off the land as we lived with it. It was
balanced. We took what it had to offer and we were thankful,” said
Dorothy Alpine, Ktunaxa elder and language expert.

Perhaps this balance meant they never had to create a word for
extinction--a concept they have no plans to add to their lexicon.

Across North America, indigenous peoples have lost their language at
an alarming rate. Actually, in many cases it would be more fair to say
that the language was taken from them through the use of residential
schools; where for generations it was a punishable offence for native
children to speak their mother tongue. From the US, through Canada,
more than 20 native languages have been lost--representing nearly half
of all the languages on the continent. It is hard to imagine the
despair an aging grandmother might feel knowing that her grandson will
never know his native language--a cornerstone of culture.

Access full article below:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/82812487.html


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 28 17:07:30 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:07:30 -0700
Subject: Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.28.JAN.2010.100730.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Science News

Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten

ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — With only 3.000 speakers in Northwest
Siberia the Ob-Ugrian language Mansi is on the verge of extinction.
Predictions say it will be extinct in ten to twenty years at the
latest. The same holds true for Khanti, a member of the same language
family. It is for this reason that extensive documentation is so
important.

Johanna Laakso, professor for Finno-Ugrian Studies at the University
of Vienna concerns herself with the documentation of this and other
minority languages in the framework of an FWF project and the EU
project ELDIA.

Access full article below:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126084059.htm


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 28 17:24:31 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:24:31 -0700
Subject: Fluent Arikara speaker dies (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.28.JAN.2010.102431.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Fluent Arikara speaker dies

Associated Press - January 28, 2010 9:15 AM ET
USA

WHITE SHIELD, N.D. (AP) - The Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota
says 1 of the remaining few elders who could teach the Arikara
language has died.

Maude Starr, whose American Indian name meant Yellow Calf Woman, died
Jan. 20 at the age of 71. Her funeral was held Wednesday in the Fort
Berthold Reservation community of White Shield.

Access full article below:
http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11894244


From David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG  Fri Jan 29 02:18:53 2010
From: David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG (David Lewis)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:18:53 -0800
Subject: Facebook and social media
Message-ID: <THU.28.JAN.2010.181853.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

As a follow up, is anyone using social media with their endangered or native language? 

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David G. Lewis, PhD

Manager, Cultural Resources Department

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Office 503.879.1634

David.Lewis at grandronde.org

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"Eating Popcorn, is Like Eating Little Explosions"- Saghaley Lewis 2009



-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology on behalf of Garry Forger
Sent: Mon 1/25/2010 10:14 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
 
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
(CERCLL) http://cercll.arizona.edu/ have links on the homepage to both
Twitter and Facebook, we use these to put out announcements about what is
going on with our organization, and news items about language issues in
general. 

Garry Forger

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:07 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From teeter42 at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jan 29 02:21:11 2010
From: teeter42 at GMAIL.COM (Jennifer Teeter)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:21:11 +0900
Subject: We are Guahan: Ask for more time for review of EIS on U.S.
 military expansion
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JAN.2010.112111.0900.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

*
http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2010/01/we-are-guahan-ask-for-more-time-for.html

University of Guam Professor Michael Lujan Bevacqua
<http://minagahet.blogspot.com/>details the environmental and societal
devastation ahead for Guam if the US proceeds to expand its military bases
there (they already cover 1/3 of the island*)

>From Genevievie at *We are Guahan*: ASK FOR MORE
TIME!!!<http://www.weareguahan.com/archives/544>
:

According to federal regulations, an EIS should “normally” be less than 150
pages. For “proposals of unusual scope or complexity” you’d normally get 300
pages. That’s probably why the 45 day commenting period is normally
sufficient, but the 90 days given to Guam residents to review 10,000 pages
is not. …Please make this comment on the Build Up website
http://www.guambuildupeis.us/comments/new

COMMENT:

“I request an extension of time of the public commenting period. According
to 40 CFR § 1502.7, an EIS should typically be between 150 and 300 pages. I
do not believe that the 45 day commenting period required by 40 CFR §
1506.10(c), nor the 90 day commenting period Guam has been given, is
reasonable considering the magnitude of the DEIS document itself and the
possible impact on the residents of Guam“.

Share This post !

More background at the *We are Guahan* <http://www.weareguahan.com/>
site; Vanessa
Warheit's blog; <http://theinsularempire.blogspot.com/> and a nutshell
summmary at our post--Does the US intend to turn Guam the next Diego
Garcia--an island turned into a massive military base by the US and UK in
1971?<http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-guam-next-diego-garcia-island-turned.html>

-- 
Greenheart Project
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan 30 19:00:56 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:00:56 -0700
Subject: Ecuador: Indigenous Radio Station Spared Closure (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JAN.2010.120056.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ECUADOR: INDIGENOUS RADIO STATION SPARED CLOSURE
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/ecuador-archives-49/2340-ecuador-indigenous-radio-station-spared-closure-

Article quote:

“The Voice of Arutam” is a Shuar indigenous radio station believed to
be the only broadcaster critically informing listeners about the
possible impacts of projected oil and mining extraction in the
southern Amazon. Its bilingual programming in the Shuar language and
Spanish has also provided important services to remote indigenous
communities for decades. Arutam is the name of the Shuar spiritual
guide.


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan 30 19:03:39 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:03:39 -0700
Subject: San children risk losing language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JAN.2010.120339.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

San children risk losing language			

Written by Administrator	
FRIDAY, 29 JANUARY 2010 08:41
Nambia

Children from indigenous communities such as the San are not only
deprived of their linguistic heritage, but they later on have little
regard for their mother tongues as well as traditional and cultural
values.

This is according to Awebahe //Hoeseb, chief education officer in the
directorate of the Kunene Education Region.

Access full article below:
http://www.economist.com.na/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20879:san-children-risk-losing-language&catid=578:general-news&Itemid=60


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan 30 19:08:18 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:08:18 -0700
Subject: Researcher gives the Chumash a gift: their heritage (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JAN.2010.120818.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Researcher gives the Chumash a gift: their heritage

John Peabody Harrington relentlessly studied Indian families for
decades. Today, a 71-year-old woman who considered him a pest is
grateful for his intense scholarship.

By Steve Chawkins
January 31, 2010
USA, The LA Times

Everyone thought the tall, strange white man was some kind of genius.
But to teenage Ernestine De Soto he was a giant pain in the neck, a
nosy, "Ichabod Crane-like" character who drew her mother's attention
from its rightful place -- on her.

John Peabody Harrington studied De Soto's Chumash family for nearly 50
years, pumping her great-grandmother, her grandmother and her mother
for the tiniest details of their lives. Everything fascinated him: the
Chumash names of places mostly forgotten, of fish no longer caught --
even, to the family's puzzlement, of private parts never discussed in
polite company. A brilliant linguist and anthropologist, Harrington
had been just as relentless with countless Indian families throughout
the West, but that didn't impress the young Ernestine.

"I was just a brat to him," she said. "He'd never speak to me if he
could help it."

Toward the end of his life, Harrington was ravaged by Parkinson's
disease, and De Soto's mother spoon-fed the lonely old man. Sometimes
De Soto's 5-year-old daughter would tickle his feet. In a few months,
he would die, poor and obscure, most of his obsessively collected
notes gathering dust in barn lofts and attics. But over time his work
would profoundly influence De Soto and many other Native Americans
whose heritage was on the verge of vanishing.

Access full article below:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ernestine31-2010jan31,0,2405463,full.story


From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan  2 06:34:28 2010
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudy Troike)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:34:28 -0700
Subject: Fwd: New issue of LD&C (Vol. 3, number 2) online (free)
Message-ID: <FRI.1.JAN.2010.233428.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

----- Forwarded message from ldc at hawaii.edu -----
    Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:25:45 -1000
    From: Language Documentation & Conservation <ldc at hawaii.edu>
    Subject: New issue of LD&C (Vol. 3, number 2)

The December 2009 issue (Volume 3, Number 2) of Language Documentation &
Conservation (LD&C) is now available at:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/

Sincerely,
LD&C Editorial Staff

---Table of Contents---

Volume 3, Number 2 (December 2009)

ARTICLES
Phoenix or Relic? Documentation of Languages with Revitalization in Mind
Rob Amery

Five Dimensions of Collaboration: Toward a Critical Theory of Coordination and
Interoperability in Language Documentation
Akiemi Glenn

Relatively Ethical: A Comparison of Linguistic Research Paradigms in Alaska and
Indonesia
Gary Holton

Documentation and Language Learning: Separate Agendas or Complementary Tasks?
Norbert Francis and Pablo Rogelio Navarrete G?mez

Online Dictionary and Ontology Building for Austronesian Languages in Taiwan
D. Victoria Rau, Meng-Chien Yang, Hui-Huan Ann Chang, and Maa-Neu Dong

NOTES FROM THE FIELD
Buhi?non (Bikol) Digital Wordlist: Presentation Form
Kenneth S. Olson, Emy T. Ballenas, Nilo M. Borromeo

TECHNOLOGY REVIEWS
Review of Transana 2.30
Oksana Afitska

Review of Transcribe!
Linda Barwick

Review of LEXUS
Kristina Kotcheva

BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Spelling and society: The culture and politics of orthography around
the world
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer

Review of The writing revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet
Kristine Stenzel


From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Thu Jan  7 17:14:58 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:14:58 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: Fw: Breaking News - Media Advisory - BC Olympics to Face
 Disruption by Indian residential school survivors - government
 given  deadline to return bodies - please circulate]
Message-ID: <THU.7.JAN.2010.121458.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


Please circulate as you see fitting....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Fw: Breaking News - Media Advisory - BC Olympics to Face 
Disruption by Indian residential school survivors - government given 
deadline to return bodies - please circulate
Date: 	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:02:52 +0000
From: 	Chris McCormick <cmccormick at aiai.on.ca>


    International Media Advisory
    Tuesday January 5, 2010 1:00 am PST

    British Columbia Olympics to Face Civil Disruptions by Survivors of
    Canadian Indian Residential schools -
    Government Given Deadline for Return of Bodies

    Vancouver - The group representing survivors of Indian residential
    schools on Canada's west coast announced today that it will hold
    civil disobedience actions and disruptions during the February 2010
    Olympics near Vancouver if the Canadian government and mainline
    churches have not announced a timetable for the repatriation of the
    remains of the thousands of children who died in these schools.

    The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD), which held
    high-profile protests and occupations of churches in Vancouver and
    Toronto during 2007 and 2008 and compelled the Canadian government
    to issue an apology for the residential schools in July, 2008, has
    given Canada and the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of
    Canada until February 15, 2010 to announce when and how they will
    return for a proper burial the remains of Indian children who died
    under their care.

    As part of this deadline, the FRD has also demanded that the
    government and churches make public the names of those responsible
    for the deaths of these children, and indicate by what judicial
    mechanism the guilty or the responsible institutions will face trial.

    Nearly half of the 150,000 children who attended Canadian Indian
    residential schools died as a result of conditions in the schools.
    (Globe and Mail, April 24, 2007) In April, 2008, the FRD released to
    the media and police a list of twenty eight mass graves near former
    Indian residential schools where many of the children are alleged to
    be buried.

    "We will halt church and government operations during the Olympics
    if that's what it takes to get the bodies of our relatives back"
    said Carol Martin, a Nishga native woman and FRD spokesperson.

    "The world has to know that our people are still dying from the
    genocide Canada and the churches inflicted on us. We've waited long
    enough for justice."

    For more information contact the FRD at:
    hiddenfromhistory@ yahoo.ca or 250-753-3345 (Canada)
    And see the website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
    <http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/>

-------

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon

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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Sat Jan  9 21:29:07 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:29:07 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: Olympic torch ignites passion - and protest]
Message-ID: <SAT.9.JAN.2010.162907.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Apologies for any double postings....

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Subject: 	Olympic torch ignites passion - and protest
Date: 	Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:09:36 -0800
From: 	Larry Kibby <l.kibby at frontier.com>




News Article
January 9, 2010
 
The following news article has been posted or forwarded in full, no 
material or data has altered or changed, please leave intact as is.
 
This news article can be located at the following web site link:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-01-09/olympic-torch-ignites-passion.html
 
*Olympic torch ignites passion ? and protest*
 
A wave of anti-Olympic sentiment and protests in Canada are threatening 
the international symbol of the Games as it makes its way across the 
vast Far North.
 
The world?s eyes are now on the North American state as it gears up to 
host the 2010 Winter Olympics, running from February 12 to 28. Although 
it is a widespread notion that the Olympic Games bring wealth, 
employment, international recognition and general prosperity to whatever 
country hosts the high profile event, the Games have historically been 
used to denounce a wide range of social injustices and human rights abuses.
 
This year?s edition of the Winter Olympics is no different. Extra 
attention has placed increased scrutiny on many of Canada?s actions, 
both past and present, which continue to tarnish the country, commonly 
referred to as the Great White North.
 
*Relay tainted by protests*
Episodes of growing anti-Olympic sentiment and protest have marred the 
Olympic torch relay, which set off from Canada?s east coast last October 30.
 
Covering approximately 35,000 kilometers of Canadian terrain, the 2010 
Olympic Torch Relay will run through every province and territory over a 
106-day period, involve 12,00 torchbearers and unite all Canadians in 
celebration, until reaching its final destination in the host city, 
Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 12, 2010.
 
Up until now, most protests along the relay route have remained 
peaceful, with demonstrators picketing and handing out pamphlets in 
specific communities along the route.
 
However, the torch relay and ensuing protest is heating up. 
Demonstrators have disrupted the flame procession or caused its route to 
be changed in Montreal, Toronto and other central Canadian cities. These 
interruptions all ended peacefully until anti-Olympic protests hit their 
peak on December 28 when a torchbearer was shoved and fell to the ground.
 
Cortney Hansen, 28, of the province of Ontario, almost unintentionally 
extinguished the flame on the wet pavement in her fall. According to 
eyewitnesses, she was accidentally pushed in an altercation between 
protesters and police; she then tripped and fell to the ground in front 
of shocked 1,000 onlookers.
 
/?I couldn?t believe my eyes,?/ Erica Goldman told RT as she recounted 
the incident. /?I think all people have the right to voice their 
opposition to any issue, but they should do so peacefully and without 
causing violence or upset. But there?s a proper time and a place. I saw 
the fall with my own eyes and it was horrifying. My son and daughter 
were pretty shaken up over it and wanted to know why anyone would 
protest the Olympics.?/
// 
Hansen continued the run, and was later treated for minor injuries. A 
19-year-old demonstrator was arrested for assaulting Hansen.
 
A few days later, further along the relay route in Ontario, another 
eight protesters were arrested for an attempt to disrupt the torch run.
 
/?We were out because the Olympics are taking place on indigenous 
territory out in British Columbia,?/ Mark Corbiere, a spokesperson for 
the protest group, called the Olympics Resistance Network, told the 
press. /?It?s a land grab from the colonial history of the Canadian 
government.?/
// 
*Alleged ?land grab?*
The greatest claim by anti-racism and anti-capitalism protesters, many 
of which are of Aboriginal origin, is that most of the Canadian province 
of British Columbia is still sovereign Native Aboriginal land, over 
which neither the Canadian or BC governments have the legal or moral 
authority to govern, let alone hold such a high-profile international 
event on the contested land.
 
Widely seen in protests across Canada in the lead up to the Vancouver 
Olympics, /?the slogan ?No Olympics on Stolen Native Land? is a way to 
raise anti-colonial consciousness in Canada and across the world about 
the true and unfettered history of colonial Canada,?/ says Eliza Dupre, 
an Aboriginal protester from an Olympics protest group based in central 
Canada.
 
/?Just because the Vancouver Olympics are being organized with a group 
of Aboriginals in Vancouver [called the Four Host First Nations, which 
comprises the Lil?wat, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First 
Nations], doesn?t mean that all Aboriginals in Canada support it,? /she 
adds.
 
It is the first time ever that a local community of indigenous peoples 
has taken part in the planning and organization of an Olympic Games from 
the bidding phase, but this unprecedented partnership is seen by 
protesters as ?the result of literally buying people off to pacify and 
silence opposition,? says Dupre.
 
*The costs of raising the flame*
Another hot potato is the negative environmental impact the Olympics 
will have on the local and mountain ecosystem in and around the host 
cities of Vancouver and Whistler. Despite its claim of being the 
?greenest Olympics? ever, protestors believe that the 2010 Olympics will 
be among the most environmentally destructive in contemporary history.
 
Dupre notes that ?tens of thousands of trees [have been] cut down, 
mountainsides blasted and natural habitats destroyed for Olympic venues 
near Whistler, [as well as] the massive highway expansion that was 
recently completed.?
 
Protesters also claim that Vancouver?s poor, which includes many 
Natives, are the ones that will pay the highest price. ?The 2010 Games 
has already meant hundreds of evictions from low-income housing, more 
homelessness, criminalization, and increased police presence and 
repression toward the poor and marginal,? a member of the Anti-Poverty 
Committee in Vancouver told RT via telephone.
 
Even animal activists are the using the increased media attention of the 
Games to denounce Canada?s fur and seal trade. Lindsay Rajt, from the 
People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, says the Vancouver 2010 
Games are being targeted because the ?world will soon be turning its 
attention to Canada? and ?Canada?s image is now equated with seal killing.?
 
Although global sports fans and most Canadians highly anticipate and 
support the Games, Vancouver residents also fear some reprisals, such as 
increased traffic and higher taxes to cover the $6 billion cost of the 
event.
 
/?I think it's awesome that the Olympics will be in Vancouver, but there 
are a lot of people who are very opposed to it because of all the money 
and all the headaches they cause. Vancouver is bad enough as it is with 
traffic and everything. It remains to be seen how it will really be like 
come February, but I am hoping for the best,? /says Julie Robins, a BC 
native, who lives and commutes between Vancouver and Whistler.
 
Although millions of viewers across the globe will no doubt follow the 
Olympic action with enthusiasm and sportsmanship, it appears that the 
Vancouver Olympics won't be fun and games for everyone.
 
 
Posted/Forward by: Larry Kibby - l.kibby at frontier.com 
<mailto:l.kibby at frontier.com>
Host of Reznews Video's
http://ubroadcast.com/channel/reznews
 
Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain 
to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for 
research and educational purposes. This is in accordance with Title 17 
U. S. C. section 107.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
 
 

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From Tracy.Jacobs at PARLIAMENT.GOVT.NZ  Sun Jan 10 22:54:19 2010
From: Tracy.Jacobs at PARLIAMENT.GOVT.NZ (Tracy Jacobs)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:54:19 +1300
Subject: FW: Adoption of national Maori flag in New Zealand
Message-ID: <MON.11.JAN.2010.115419.1300.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Kia ora

I thought list members might be interested in this information on the adoption of a national Maori flag:


http://www.mch.govt.nz/nzflag/maori-flag.html

Guidelines for flying the national M?ori flag
Introduction
Recently, Cabinet has noted that a preferred national M?ori flag has been identified, and that it is intended to complement the New Zealand flag. Cabinet also noted that it is proposed that the flag will fly on certain buildings and structures and sites of national significance on Waitangi Day, and that government agencies may also fly  the flag at their discretion on Waitangi Day [CAB Min (09) 44/15 refers].

The national M?ori flag was identified through a nationwide consultation process, as detailed below. While it does not carry official status, by virtue of its design, it is a symbol of this land which can complement the New Zealand flag. Flying the two flags together, on days of national significance like Waitangi Day, will symbolise and enhance the Crown-M?ori relationship.


Nga mihi nui mo te tau hou (Happy New Year!)

Tracy Jacobs
Hansard Indexer


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 11 16:52:59 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:52:59 -0700
Subject: Giving new life to her native language, Ojibwe (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.11.JAN.2010.095259.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Giving new life to her native language, Ojibwe
Dorene Wiese hopes to revive language and is president of the American
Indian Association of Illinois

Dawn Turner Trice
January 11, 2010

When Dorene Wiese was a young girl she would listen to the stories her
family members told as they gathered around her kitchen table.

Relatives often reminisced about harvesting rice, or more precisely
manomin, from the marshes of northern Minnesota. They told stories of
getting into canoes and using hand paddles to knock the grains into
their baskets. It was an annual event, filled with ceremony that
brought their Ojibwe community together as they worked to parch,
separate and clean the rice, before bagging it for storage.

Wiese (pronounced WEE-see), who's now 60 and is the president of the
American Indian Association of Illinois, said that although the
stories were robust -- as a child she easily lost herself in them --
she realized years later that because her family no longer spoke the
Ojibwe language, their stories may have lost meaning and color by
being told in English.

So Wiese, who has a doctorate from Northern Illinois University, has
been working for the last three decades to revive the language. Her
research is in oral history, and she has studied the ways in which
learning is passed down through generations.

Access full article below:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-trice-11jan11,0,4759894.column


From teeter42 at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 12 05:15:01 2010
From: teeter42 at GMAIL.COM (Jennifer Teeter)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:15:01 +0900
Subject: Petition to Realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people in
 Japan
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JAN.2010.141501.0900.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

To the members of the ILAT listerv,

Currently, the Ramat Ainu Organization, the Asahikawa Ainu
Organization, and several other individuals and organization in Ainu
Mosir and Japan have drafted a petition calling on the Japanese
government to realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people.

As the petition outlines, the Japanese government continues to neglect
the rights of the Ainu people and has yet to acknowledge its
historical responsibility for wreaking havoc on Ainu society. In its
latest policy meeting report (July, 2009), the Japanese government
explicitly blamed the Ainu people for being robbed of their land,
language and culture stating that "the lack of the concept of
land-ownership or a written language made them ill-fit for
modernization."  The Japanese government's (il)logic is perpetuating
discrimination, breeding prejudice, and ensuring that the rights of
the Ainu people are not restored. Your support on this petition would
mean so much at this critical time!

I have attached the official English translation of the petition to
this email. If you are intereted in reading the Japanese petition, I
can forward that to you at your request. If you have any questions
about the petition, please feel free to write here at anytime and I
will do my best to assist you in communicating with the Ramat Ainu
Organization in Japanese if you do not already speak or write
Japanese.

In order to sign the petition electronically, all you would have to do
is send your name, (org name if relevant), and (org) address (at least
city name) to ramatglobal at gmail.com.

I've copied the official instructions from the PDF into the content of
this email below.

Feel free to pass this one along to others as you like and let me know
if you have any difficulties opening the pdf:)

Best wishes,
Jennifer Teeter
(Kyoto)
--------------
The following two items are the content of the petition. We would like
to make the first collection of signatures by the end of January.


   1. We urge you to recognize the historical responsibility of the
modern Japanese Imperial state in forcibly robbing the Ainu?s inherent
rights to land, resources and territory, and to implement the
restoration of indigenous rights and self-determination rights as
stipulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (adopted in 2007).


   2.  Upon agreement of the statement above, we urge you to engage in
charanke (dialogue) on equal footing with representatives from all
Ainu organizations and conduct a review of Ainu policies.

Please send your petition (group or individual) to the following
address. It is also possible to send a fax or email. Please be sure to
write your group?s name with the name of a representative and an
address in the content of your email, indicating you are in agreement
with the demands as outlined above. If you would like to send your
petition by fax or through the post, please email us and we will send
you a form to send back to us.


[Address] Ainu Ramat Organization (Attn: Dehara)

3-16-11 Takenotsuka Adachi-ku, Tokyo 121-0813 Japan

Telephone & Fax +81-(0)3-3860-2156 Email ramatglobal at gmail.com
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From KRUPNIKI at SI.EDU  Tue Jan 12 13:53:19 2010
From: KRUPNIKI at SI.EDU (Krupnik, Igor)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:53:19 -0500
Subject: Petition to Realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people
 in Japan
In-Reply-To: <4be85afc1001112115q493e2ec4n3781ce2e08332e70@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JAN.2010.085319.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

FYI

________________________________________
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jennifer Teeter [teeter42 at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:15 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Petition to Realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people in Japan

To the members of the ILAT listerv,

Currently, the Ramat Ainu Organization, the Asahikawa Ainu
Organization, and several other individuals and organization in Ainu
Mosir and Japan have drafted a petition calling on the Japanese
government to realize the indigenous rights of the Ainu people.

As the petition outlines, the Japanese government continues to neglect
the rights of the Ainu people and has yet to acknowledge its
historical responsibility for wreaking havoc on Ainu society. In its
latest policy meeting report (July, 2009), the Japanese government
explicitly blamed the Ainu people for being robbed of their land,
language and culture stating that "the lack of the concept of
land-ownership or a written language made them ill-fit for
modernization."  The Japanese government's (il)logic is perpetuating
discrimination, breeding prejudice, and ensuring that the rights of
the Ainu people are not restored. Your support on this petition would
mean so much at this critical time!

I have attached the official English translation of the petition to
this email. If you are intereted in reading the Japanese petition, I
can forward that to you at your request. If you have any questions
about the petition, please feel free to write here at anytime and I
will do my best to assist you in communicating with the Ramat Ainu
Organization in Japanese if you do not already speak or write
Japanese.

In order to sign the petition electronically, all you would have to do
is send your name, (org name if relevant), and (org) address (at least
city name) to ramatglobal at gmail.com.

I've copied the official instructions from the PDF into the content of
this email below.

Feel free to pass this one along to others as you like and let me know
if you have any difficulties opening the pdf:)

Best wishes,
Jennifer Teeter
(Kyoto)
--------------
The following two items are the content of the petition. We would like
to make the first collection of signatures by the end of January.


   1. We urge you to recognize the historical responsibility of the
modern Japanese Imperial state in forcibly robbing the Ainu?s inherent
rights to land, resources and territory, and to implement the
restoration of indigenous rights and self-determination rights as
stipulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (adopted in 2007).


   2.  Upon agreement of the statement above, we urge you to engage in
charanke (dialogue) on equal footing with representatives from all
Ainu organizations and conduct a review of Ainu policies.

Please send your petition (group or individual) to the following
address. It is also possible to send a fax or email. Please be sure to
write your group?s name with the name of a representative and an
address in the content of your email, indicating you are in agreement
with the demands as outlined above. If you would like to send your
petition by fax or through the post, please email us and we will send
you a form to send back to us.


[Address] Ainu Ramat Organization (Attn: Dehara)

3-16-11 Takenotsuka Adachi-ku, Tokyo 121-0813 Japan

Telephone & Fax +81-(0)3-3860-2156 Email ramatglobal at gmail.com

From neskiem at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jan 13 04:01:33 2010
From: neskiem at GMAIL.COM (Neskie Manuel)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:01:33 -0800
Subject: recording sound through web
In-Reply-To: <59c9c4cc0912170515m57a2c1e5mc4c6af49d8f6595b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JAN.2010.200133.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

It's not what you asked for but there is Screencast-o-matic that
creates a screencast and can record the audio if you have a mic hooked
up.  So it can be done obviously.  You do need to install flash, which
most people have because they probably watch YouTube.

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> does anyone know of an application (or whether it's possible to write a java
> program) to record sound remotely? What I want to do is have a web form
> where someone can click on a word, use their computer to record the word
> (ideally without having to install extra software) and then have the file
> automatically saved on my server. There must be distance learning tools that
> do this sort of thing?
> Thanks,
> Claire
>



-- 
Neskie Manuel
Secwepemc Radio 91.1 FM
http://secwepemcradio.ath.cx
Ph: (866) 423-0911


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jan 13 22:17:35 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:17:35 -0700
Subject: CFP: SILS Deadline Extended
Message-ID: <WED.13.JAN.2010.151735.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

fwd msg

*17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium*

*?Language and Place?*

Call for Proposals

June 25 - 27, 2010

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon



*Proposal Due Date EXTENDED:  February 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm PST*



The University of Oregon and the Northwest Indian Language Institute are
pleased to announce

that we will be hosting the 17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages
Symposium

held June 25, 26, and 27, 2010. The University of Oregon, in Eugene,

sits on ancestral lands of the Kalapuya people.

* *



*Language and Place* are intrinsically tied together.  Indigenous thought
and lifeways are rooted in the places people have lived since time
immemorial.  With this thought in mind, please submit proposals that support
these ideas through educating and informing language workers, advocates,
programs, and linguists from around the world.



*Symposium session information*

We invite you to submit a proposal that will fit in one of four venues:
workshops, demonstrations, poster sessions, and panel sessions. The
symposium committee will select proposals that focus on language
documentation, revitalization, maintenance, methodology, research,
practices, and teaching which address and/or incorporate the *Language and
Place* theme.



We are especially seeking presentations that inform and educate Symposium
participants on the best practices in language revitalization/maintenance;
not presentations which primarily promote a specific company, product,
service, or solution. Sessions will range in time from 45, 60, and 90 minute
blocks.

* *

*Important dates*

Complete proposals must be received on *February 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm
PST*.  Online
and email submissions are highly encouraged!



The committee will contact you on or before *February 15, 2010* to let you
know if your proposal has been selected for presentation at the Symposium.  All
decisions are final.

* *

*Symposium waste-free goal*

In being mindful of our environment, our goal is to be a waste-free event.
Therefore we encourage presenters and participants alike to help in this
effort to avoid unnecessary waste or excessive use of paper. To this end, we
encourage presenters to offer digital materials to participants when at all
possible.  We would be glad to offer the Symposium website as a place for
participants to download materials before or after the Symposium.  Please
let us know if you would like to take advantage of this offer.



*Symposium proposals should include the following:*

Name of the person(s) who will be part of the session

Affiliation (tribe, nation, organization, etc.)

Title and description of the session - up to 300 words

Audio, visual, computer needs - **please note, we cannot provide lap top
computers*

Type of session (panel session, paper, poster session, presentation,
workshop)

Length of session (45, 60, 90 minutes)

Presenter(s) profile(s) - on a separate page please include the following
information about each presenter in your proposal: name, title (if
applicable), affiliation (tribe, nation, organization, university, etc.),
contact information (including email and phone number), and a biography of
no more than 100 words per presenter.

*Please indicate if you are willing to make your handouts digitally
available before and/or after the SILS



*Something Different at SILS 2010*

This year we would like to offer a space for language groups, alliances, and
organizations to meet.  If you are a leader of a language organization,
please send in a one page Meeting Proposal.  Be sure to include: your group
name, name and contact information for your group?s main person/contact,
expected number of participants, and the type of meeting you will be having
(business meeting, language/language family work group, open discussion
forum, etc.).  Also, indicate if the meeting is open for anyone to attend.  A
meeting agenda would be a good resource to include with the proposal, if
available.



*Please mail your session proposal information to:*

SILS 2010

NILI - University of Oregon

Attn: SILS Committee

1629 Moss Street

Eugene, Oregon   97403    USA



*Send via email to:*

sils2010 at uoregon.edu



*For updated conference information and documents visit the SILS 2010
website at:*



http://www.uoregon.edu/~nwili/SILS/SILS.html<http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Enwili/SILS/SILS.html>

* *

* *

* *

*Important Dates*

SILS Proposals EXTENDED to - February 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm PST

Notification of proposal acceptance - February 15, 2010
SILS 2010 - June 25, 26, and 27, 2010
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From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Thu Jan 14 13:50:29 2010
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:50:29 -0600
Subject: language learning through youtube
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From pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET  Fri Jan 15 18:49:56 2010
From: pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET (phil cash cash)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:49:56 -0700
Subject: New technology to keep old ways alive (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.15.JAN.2010.114956.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

New technology to keep old ways alive

14th January 2010
Australia

LEARNING the ways of wise elders and preserving the Fraser Coast?s  
heritage has been the focus of a community workshop held in Hervey Bay  
this week.
Fifteen indigenous people have been taking part in the Indigenous  
Knowledge Recording Workshop project at the Hervey Bay Sports and  
Leisure Centre.

Traditional owner of the region Mal Collinge hopes by teaching people  
how to use digital media it will encourage them to record elders?  
knowledge of the land.



Access full article below:

http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2010/01/14/new-technology-to-keep-old-ways-alive/

From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 18 17:41:07 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:41:07 -0700
Subject: State of the World's Indigenous Peoples (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JAN.2010.104107.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/sowip.html

Highlight Excerpt:

90 per cent of all languages will disappear within 100 years. It is usually
estimated that there are between 6,000
and 7,000 oral languages in the world today. Most of these languages are
spoken by very few people, while a
handful of them are spoken by an overwhelming majority of the world. About
97 per cent of the world?s population
speaks 4 per cent of its languages, while only 3 per cent speaks 96 per cent
of them. A great majority of these
languages are spoken by indigenous peoples, and many (if not most) of them
are in danger of becoming extinct.
Roughly 90 per cent of all existing languages may become extinct within the
next 100 years.

Dying languages, damaging communities. While some indigenous peoples are
successfully revitalising languages,
many others are fighting a losing battle, where languages are simply no
longer passed from one generation to the
next. Most governments are aware of this language crisis but funding is
often provided only for the recording of
languages, while limited funds are diverted to language revitalization
programmes. Language, furthermore, is not
only a communication tool, it is often linked to the land or region
traditionally occupied by indigenous peoples; it
is an essential component of one?s collective and individual identity and
therefore provides a sense of belonging
and community. When the language dies, that sense of community is damaged.
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From teeter42 at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 19 04:43:50 2010
From: teeter42 at GMAIL.COM (Jennifer Teeter)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:43:50 +0900
Subject: Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JAN.2010.134350.0900.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Dear ILAT subscribers

I thought this might be of interest to some of you or your collegaues.

Best wishes,
Jennifer Teeter
-------------------
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=173285

Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize
Prize Deadline:	2010-02-15 (in 28 days)
Date Submitted: 	2010-01-14
Announcement ID: 	173285
Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize

The Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize sponsored by the Aboriginal
History Group of the Canadian Historical Association, for the best
book written in English or in French dealing with the history of
Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.

Rationale ? Historical studies dealing with Aboriginal peoples now
constitute a well-established and diverse body of scholarship in
Canada. This prize will help draw attention to Aboriginal history
while promoting its further growth and maturity.

Eligibility -- Scholarly books concerning the history of Aboriginal
peoples whose territory overlaps with that of the current Canadian
state, and/or books concerning Aboriginal people whose history
involves significant interaction with institutions (state,
ecclesiastic, corporate, or other) that are closely associated with
what would become Canada.

Adjudication Criteria -- The award is presented to the author(s) or
editor(s) of the best scholarly work in Canadian Aboriginal history.
The submitted title will build on theoretical, interpretive, and
descriptive work within a community of scholars and contribute to the
creation and transmission of knowledge. It must have been subjected to
peer review. The publisher need not be Canadian. The publication
should show potential readability by a wider audience.

Submission process ? Books bearing an imprint of 2009 are eligible for
the 2010 prize. One copy of each entry should be sent to each of the
following six jury members by February 15, 2010.

Prize ? The Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize consists of a
certificate (signed by president of the Aboriginal History Study Group
(AHSG) and by the president of the Canadian Historical Association
(CHA), and (when resources allow) a financial or some equivalent prize
such as a work of Aboriginal art.

Presentation of the prize The prize will be presented at the annual
meeting of the CHA during their awards ceremony.

Referees -- The adjudication committee will be appointed by the
president of the Aboriginal History Group from people who are members
of the Canadian Historical Association and members of the Aboriginal
History Group. The president?s selection of referees will be guided by
the following considerations: identifying people who are respected
within the discipline of history; trying to ensure that not only
academic historian's voices are represented on the committee.

Jury Members:

1) Keith Thor Carlson
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
9-Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK
S7N 5A5
keith.carlson at usask.ca
306-966-5902

2) Coll Thrush, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
University of British Columbia
Room 1297, 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
cthrush[at]interchange[dot]ubc[dot]ca
tel 604/827-3623
fax 604/822-6658

3) Jarvis Brownlie
brownlie at ms.umanitoba.ca
450 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2

4) Carolyn Podruchny
Department of History
York University
2140 Vari Hall
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
PH: 416-736-5123
email: carolynp at yorku.ca

5) P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G3

6) Jean Manore
The Department of History
Bishop's University
2600 College Street
Sherbrooke, Qu?bec, Canada
J1M 1Z7
Tel: 819 822-9600
Fax: 819 822-9661

FRENCH VERSION:

Le Prix du livre d'histoire autochtone canadienne

Le Prix du livre d'histoire autochtone canadienne est offert par le
Groupe d'?tude d'histoire autochtone de la Soci?t? historique du
Canada au meilleur livre r?dig? en fran?ais ou en anglais portant sur
l'histoire des peuples autochtones au Canada.

Logique ? Les recherches historiques portant sur les peuples
autochtones constituent maintenant un corpus bien ?tabli et diversifi?
d'?rudition au Canada. Le prix contribuera ? attirer l'attention sur
l'histoire autochtone tout en promouvant son d?veloppement et sa
maturit?.

Crit?res d'admissibilit? ? Les livres savants qui portent sur
l'histoire des peuples autochtones dont le territoire chevauche celui
de l'?tat canadien actuel et/ou les livres qui portent sur l'histoire
de peuples autochtones dont l'histoire comporte une interd?pendance
prononc?e avec les institutions (?tatiques, eccl?siastiques et
d'entreprises, ou autres) qui sont associ?es de pr?s avec ce qui
deviendra le Canada.

Crit?res d'attribution ? Le prix est remis ? l'auteur (ou auteurs) ou
au r?dacteur (ou r?dacteurs) du meilleur ouvrage savant en histoire
autochtone. L'ouvrage soumis apportera de nouvelles th?ories,
interpr?tations et descriptions de l'histoire autochtone dans la
communaut? ?rudite et contribuera ? la cr?ation et diffusion du
savoir. L'ouvrage aura ?t? soumis ? une ?valuation par les pairs. La
maison d'?dition n'est pas obligatoirement canadienne. La publication
devrait avoir le potentiel d'une grande lisibilit? aupr?s du public.

Processus de soumission ? Les livres publi?s en 2009 sont admissibles
au prix 2010. Une copie du livre doit ?tre envoy?e ? chaque membres du
jury avant le 15 f?vrier 2010.

Prix ? Le Prix du livre d'histoire autochtone consiste en un
certificat sign? par le pr?sident du Groupe d'?tude de l'histoire
autochtone (GEHA) et le pr?sident de la Soci?t? historique du Canada
(SHC), et (fonds permettant) un prix en argent ou son ?quivalent, tel
une ?uvre d'art autochtone.

Remise du Prix ? Le prix sera pr?sent? lors du Congr?s annuel de la SHC

Membres du comit? ? Le comit? d'attribution sera nomm? par le
pr?sident du Groupe d'histoire autochtone. Les membres du comit?
seront des membres du GEHA et de la SHC. Le pr?sident sera guid? dans
sa s?lection par les consid?rations suivantes : identification des
personnes qui sont respect?es au sein de la discipline de l'histoire;
pour s'assurer que des historiens autres que le personnel enseignant
soient repr?sent?s sur le comit?.

Membres :

1) Keith Thor Carlson
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
9-Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK
S7N 5A5
keith.carlson at usask.ca
306-966-5902

2) Coll Thrush, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
University of British Columbia
Room 1297, 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
cthrush[at]interchange[dot]ubc[dot]ca
tel 604/827-3623
fax 604/822-6658

3) Jarvis Brownlie
brownlie at ms.umanitoba.ca
450 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2

4) Carolyn Podruchny
Department of History
York University
2140 Vari Hall
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
PH: 416-736-5123
email: carolynp at yorku.ca

5) P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G3

6) Jean Manore
The Department of History
Bishop's University
2600 College Street
Sherbrooke, Qu?bec, Canada
J1M 1Z7
Tel: 819 822-9600
Fax: 819 822-9661
	Keith Carlson
History Department
University of Saskatchewan
9 Campus Dr.
Saskatoon SK
S7N 5A5

Email: keith.carlson at usask.ca
Visit the website at http://www.cha-shc.ca/splashpage.html


From rrlapier at AOL.COM  Tue Jan 19 22:44:20 2010
From: rrlapier at AOL.COM (rrlapier at AOL.COM)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:44:20 EST
Subject: Fwd: Passing of William Demmert Jr
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JAN.2010.174420.EST.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subj: Passing of William Demmert Jr



Friends It with a very sad heart that I inform you that  our friend and the 
leader of our research partnership passed away this morning  Janary 19 at 
5:00AM. He was 75 years old. His passing was peaceful with family  at his 
side. For those who were not aware of his illness Bill had lymphoma  which 
turned to lung cancer. I have known Bill for nearly 40 years, having  worked 
directly with him for 30 years on many efforts. He had a very wide  circle of 
friends and will always be known as a very generous man with his  time, 
friendship and leadership. I will miss him deeply; we will all miss him.  
Arrangments are pending.. David  Beaulieu
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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Wed Jan 20 00:18:35 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:18:35 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Passing of William Demmert Jr
In-Reply-To: <1357a.5c42a44.38878fc4@aol.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JAN.2010.191835.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Prayers and thoughts go with you and your friend/colleague. I have 
experienced such loss after working with friends/colleagues for many 
years. I lost a very dear one in 1990 and there is hardly a day goes by 
I do not think of him and wish he were here to discuss some theory or 
idea. I guess that is how long friendships last.

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rolland nadjiwon



rrlapier at AOL.COM wrote:
> Subj: Passing of William Demmert Jr
>
>      
>     Friends It with a very sad heart that I inform you that our friend
>     and the leader of our research partnership passed away this
>     morning Janary 19 at 5:00AM. He was 75 years old. His passing was
>     peaceful with family at his side. For those who were not aware of
>     his illness Bill had lymphoma which turned to lung cancer. I have
>     known Bill for nearly 40 years, having worked directly with him
>     for 30 years on many efforts. He had a very wide circle of friends
>     and will always be known as a very generous man with his time,
>     friendship and leadership. I will miss him deeply; we will all
>     miss him. Arrangments are pending.. David Beaulieu
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From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:11:03 -0600
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 21 17:22:12 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:22:12 -0700
Subject: Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JAN.2010.102212.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future
The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO warns that 19 Cambodian
languages are at risk of extinction

Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh 21 January 2010

More than 20 languages are spoken in Cambodia, but most are minority
languages and face extinction in the coming decades.

Robert Carmichael has this report from Phnom Penh.

Jean-Michel Filippi is in a race. As the foremost scholar of S'aoch,
the language of one of Cambodia's minority tribes, he has only a few
years to record the language before it may be lost forever. To date he
has recorded 4,000 words in S'aoch. His next step is to write a
grammar book on the language.

Filippi says just 10 people are fluent in S'aoch and none uses the
language in their daily life. That makes S'aoch the most endangered
language in Cambodia. In a decade it will likely be extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodias-Minority-Languages-Face-Bleak-Future-82250487.html


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 21 19:08:57 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:08:57 -0700
Subject: Samson & Delilah makes Oscar short list (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JAN.2010.120857.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Samson & Delilah makes Oscar short list

Peter Mitchell | 21st January 2010

ALICE Springs filmmaker Warwick Thornton and his award-winning drama
Samson and Delilah have taken a major leap toward Oscar glory.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced Samson
and Delilah made the short list for the best foreign language Oscar.

Access full article below:
http://www.ballinaadvocate.com.au/story/2010/01/21/samson-delilah-makes-oscar-short-list/

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ILAT note: Filmed in both Walpiri, an Aboriginal language, and English.


From jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jan 22 22:09:38 2010
From: jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Joe sanchez)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:09:38 -0700
Subject: Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JAN.2010.150938.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

yes

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:22 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)

Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future
The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO warns that 19 Cambodian
languages are at risk of extinction

Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh 21 January 2010

More than 20 languages are spoken in Cambodia, but most are minority
languages and face extinction in the coming decades.

Robert Carmichael has this report from Phnom Penh.

Jean-Michel Filippi is in a race. As the foremost scholar of S'aoch,
the language of one of Cambodia's minority tribes, he has only a few
years to record the language before it may be lost forever. To date he
has recorded 4,000 words in S'aoch. His next step is to write a
grammar book on the language.

Filippi says just 10 people are fluent in S'aoch and none uses the
language in their daily life. That makes S'aoch the most endangered
language in Cambodia. In a decade it will likely be extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodias-Minority-Languages-Face-Bleak-Future-82250487.html


From jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jan 22 22:09:43 2010
From: jsanchez at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Joe sanchez)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:09:43 -0700
Subject: Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JAN.2010.150943.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thank you

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:22 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future (fwd link)

Cambodia's Minority Languages Face Bleak Future
The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO warns that 19 Cambodian
languages are at risk of extinction

Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh 21 January 2010

More than 20 languages are spoken in Cambodia, but most are minority
languages and face extinction in the coming decades.

Robert Carmichael has this report from Phnom Penh.

Jean-Michel Filippi is in a race. As the foremost scholar of S'aoch,
the language of one of Cambodia's minority tribes, he has only a few
years to record the language before it may be lost forever. To date he
has recorded 4,000 words in S'aoch. His next step is to write a
grammar book on the language.

Filippi says just 10 people are fluent in S'aoch and none uses the
language in their daily life. That makes S'aoch the most endangered
language in Cambodia. In a decade it will likely be extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodias-Minority-Languages-Face-Bleak-Future-82250487.html


From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jan 23 01:24:13 2010
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:24:13 -0700
Subject: Searching for Precedents for Having Native Elders as Fully
 Enfranchised Members of MA Thesis Committee
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JAN.2010.182413.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Taanshi, hello!

I am earching for precedents for having an Native Elder(s) as fully
enfranchised Members of a MA thesis committee.  My thesis incorporates video
documentation, storytelling, oral history, linguistic analysis of a Native
language done through a reflexive and collaborative process with the fluent
speakers involved.  As the knowledge and direction of one Elder in
particular is essential for me to be able to do the project, I would like to
ask her to be on my thesis commitee.  However, I need to make a case for
this and the dean our graduate school (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge,
Alberta, Canada) has asked me to do some research.  She is very supportive
but I need to supply her with hard facts so she can go to the president of
the university with my request and hopefully set some new policy.

Kihchi-maarsii por to? aad!   Thanks for your help!

Eekoshi pitamaa. That is it for now.
Heather Souter
MA Candidate, Michif Language and Linguistics
University of Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada
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From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jan 23 20:54:10 2010
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:54:10 -0600
Subject: New Avenue for theGrassroots to Access Funding for
 Culture/Language Revitalization/Stabilization Programs for Youth
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JAN.2010.145410.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Taanshi,Good News!  Community-based groups (in communities larger than
1,000) in Canada needing funding to run cultural and language programs for
youth, including language camps can now apply directly to Heritage Canada!
Finally, it is possible that funding will start flowing to grassroots
organizations without having to transit umbrella organizations or
centralized Aboriginal political structures!  Let's hope we start seeing
some more bang for the few bucks we get for language
revitalization/stabilization!
Eekoshi pitamaa.  That is it for now.
Heather


Government of Canada Launches Call for Proposals for Urban Aboriginal Youth
Projects
http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/minstr/moore/cdm-mc/cd-ns-eng.cfm?action=doc&TpID=1&DocIDCd=CR092224

*WINNIPEG, January 11, 2010 -* On behalf of the Honourable James Moore,
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, Shelly Glover,
Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages and Member of Parliament
(Saint Boniface), today launched the Cultural Connections for Aboriginal
Youth <http://pch.gc.ca/pgm/pa-app/pgm/ccja-ccay/guide-eng.cfm> component
(formally known as Urban Multipurpose Aboriginal Youth Centres) of the
Aboriginal
Peoples' Program <http://pch.gc.ca/pgm/pa-app/index-eng.cfm>

"Young Aboriginal people represent an increasingly important segment of the
Canadian population. By investing in the potential of urban Aboriginal youth
and providing them with culturally-focussed programming, we are contributing
to the social and economic prosperity of current and future generations,"
said Minister Moore.

"This initiative is an incredibly important one for urban Aboriginal youth
across the country," said Mrs. Glover. "This kind of programming will enable
them to become more active participants in shaping their future and in
building strong communities and families."

On November 17, 2009, Minister Moore announced a six-year extension of
Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth. The $150-million investment will
ensure continued support to Aboriginal youth aged 10 to 24, living in urban
settings across Canada, by providing programming that incorporates
Aboriginal values, cultures, and traditional practices in projects and
activities designed to strengthen their cultural identity, improve their
social, economic, and personal prospects, and enable them to fully
participate in Canadian society.

Eligible organizations are invited to submit project proposals. For more
information on how to apply, including the funding application guide, visit
www.canadianheritage.gc.ca. <http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/>
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From charles.riley at YALE.EDU  Sun Jan 24 19:39:23 2010
From: charles.riley at YALE.EDU (Riley, Charles)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:39:23 -0500
Subject: Searching for Precedents for Having Native Elders as Fully
 Enfranchised Members of MA Thesis Committee
In-Reply-To: <6d8c8c411001221724y134d1f2ai8f56bc3bdd228022@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.24.JAN.2010.143923.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi Heather,

This is the closest precedent I could find:

http://www.indigenousportal.com/Language/PhD-thesis-written-in-Mi-kmaq-breaks-ground.html

The article says that Metallic sought out a Mikmaq elder to serve on the committee, and that Eleanor Johnson, now a professor at Cape Breton, agreed to serve as chair.  I can't tell clearly from the article whether Johnson is an elder as well as professor, or whether among the members of his committee there may be another person serving who is an elder, but this gives you something to start with.

Charles Riley


________________________________________
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Heather Souter [hsouter at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:24 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Searching for Precedents for Having Native Elders as Fully Enfranchised Members of MA Thesis Committee

Taanshi, hello!

I am earching for precedents for having an Native Elder(s) as fully enfranchised Members of a MA thesis committee.  My thesis incorporates video documentation, storytelling, oral history, linguistic analysis of a Native language done through a reflexive and collaborative process with the fluent speakers involved.  As the knowledge and direction of one Elder in particular is essential for me to be able to do the project, I would like to ask her to be on my thesis commitee.  However, I need to make a case for this and the dean our graduate school (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) has asked me to do some research.  She is very supportive but I need to supply her with hard facts so she can go to the president of the university with my request and hopefully set some new policy.

Kihchi-maarsii por to? aad!   Thanks for your help!

Eekoshi pitamaa. That is it for now.
Heather Souter
MA Candidate, Michif Language and Linguistics
University of Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada


From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Mon Jan 25 07:22:57 2010
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:22:57 -0500
Subject: Call For Papers....
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.022257.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


  *Native American Literature Panel Of The South Central Modern Language
  Association: Call For Papers *


Call for Papers: The Native American Literature Panel of the South 
Central Modern Language Association invites papers or 500-word abstracts 
to be considered for the annual convention in Fort Worth, Texas, from 
October 28-30, 2010. Papers may pertain to any aspect of Native American 
literature and should be no more than twenty minutes in length. Please 
e-mail abstracts or papers by March 26, 2010, to Kirstin Squint at 
kirstin.squint at gmail.com <mailto:kirstin.squint at gmail.com> This e-mail 
address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to 
view it .

For more information about the conference, consult the SCMLA website: 
http://www.ou.edu/scmla/.

Kirstin L. Squint, Ph.D.
Department of English and Philosophy
Southern University, Baton Rouge

 
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 25 17:50:37 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:50:37 -0700
Subject: Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha
 Language Software (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.105037.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha Language Software

Posted : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:02:13 GMT
Author : Rosetta Stone Inc.
Category : Press Release

ARLINGTON, Va. - (Business Wire) Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST), a
leading provider of technology-based language learning solutions,
announced today the release of the Chitimacha language version of
Rosetta Stone? software for exclusive use by the Chitimacha Tribe of
Louisiana. Despite the death of the last fluent speaker in 1940, the
Chitimacha tribe is reviving its language through collaboration with
the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program. The Rosetta Stone
immersion approach enables language learners to develop everyday
proficiency by linking meaning and structure of a new language
directly to real world objects and events without translation. The
Chitimacha language version of the software has been created through a
Rosetta Stone corporate grant with all distribution rights belonging
to the tribe.

?We are honored that the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program can
help the Chitimacha reclaim a piece of their heritage and cultural
identity,? said Marion Bittinger, manager of the Rosetta Stone
Endangered Language Program. ?We are optimistic our work with
indigenous groups will be a step towards reversing the tide of global
language extinction.?

With no native Chitimacha speakers in existence, the tribe?s Cultural
Department began its language revitalization program in 1997, using
wax cylinder recordings and field notes made 65 years before by
renowned linguist Morris Swadesh. The recordings and field notes
allowed a few tribal members to immerse themselves in the complex
grammar and vocabulary of the dormant language and learn to pronounce
the difficult sequences of sounds. As a result of the grant, Rosetta
Stone staff members collaborated in the adaptation of the software to
teach concepts and structures using only the Chitimacha language.

?Language is really the heart of any culture. It?s not just about
learning the words ? it?s about the connection to your past,? said
Kimberly Walden, Cultural Director of the Chitimacha Tribe and a key
figure in the three-year effort to customize, record and produce the
software. ?The Rosetta Stone component of our language revitalization
program will transform the way the Chitimacha language is taught. It
will allow us to reach our entire membership regardless of their
location and will enable the tribe as a whole to communicate as we did
more than 75 years ago.?

Learning with Rosetta Stone is a natural choice for language
revitalization programs as the award-winning solutions help users
develop language proficiency without translation, memorization or
conjugation tables. The Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program has
developed software for several indigenous languages, including Mohawk
(Kanien?keha), the coastal dialect of Inupiaq in Alaska and Inuttitut
in Labrador, Canada. The North Slope Inupiaq and Navajo languages are
also currently under development with Rosetta Stone.

For more information please visit pr.RosettaStone.com.

Access full article below:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/rosetta-stone-endangered-language-program-releases-chitimacha-language-software,1134301.shtml


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 25 17:53:38 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:53:38 -0700
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CProtecting_Our_Language=E2=80=9Dand_?= the
 Dakota way
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.105338.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

?Protecting Our Language? and the Dakota way

By Scott Tedrick, Editor
Advocate Tribune
Mon Jan 25, 2010, 09:35 AM CST
Granite Falls, Minn. (USA)

There may be nothing more important to a culture?s identity than its language.

According to National Geographic explorer Wade Davis, at the time
today?s typical adult was born there were 6,000 languages spoken on
earth. Today, ?fully half? are no longer being taught to school
children.

Looking at a map of Minnesota, names such as Minneapolis, Kandiyohi,
Mankato dot the landscape in reference to the Dakota  language ? the
very first spoken in the state.

Yet, the existence of the very language from which the word
?Minnesota? derives is in danger of being lost. In fact, after the
recent passing of two Dakota elders, including local Rev. Gary
Cavender, only nine first generation speakers remain to pass on the
vernacular as it was once spoken ? true to the sound and inflections
as it had been expressed, at one time, in abundance.

Such knowledge should indicate what makes ?Dakota Wicohan?s? mission:
to preserve Dakota as a living language, and through it, transmit
Dakota lifeways to future generations,  so important to all
Minnesotans.

Access full article below:
http://www.granitefallsnews.com/news/x1090818806/-Protecting-Our-Language-and-the-Dakota-way


From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jan 25 17:56:34 2010
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:56:34 -0500
Subject: Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha
 Language Software (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <76621a9c1001250950h2f2f3faco25caa4bdc9dfe48@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.125634.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

does anyone have feedback from groups that have used Rosetta software? (e.g.
about the recording/materials process and what happens afterward?)
Claire

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha Language
> Software
>
> Posted : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:02:13 GMT
> Author : Rosetta Stone Inc.
> Category : Press Release
>
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From okimah at MAC.COM  Mon Jan 25 18:00:41 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:00:41 -0500
Subject: Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha
 Language Software (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <76621a9c1001250950h2f2f3faco25caa4bdc9dfe48@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.130041.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

We did a full episode on the Chitamacha Rosette Stone project earlier  
this year for our documentary series "Finding Our Talk 3" that aired  
on APTN here in Canada.  Its was a great opportunity to see and hear  
about the community project from its beginnings to its  
implementation.  It's great to hear that they've successfully  
launched it.  Visit www.mushkeg.ca for those interested in knowing  
more about the episode and series.

Paul Rickard

On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

> Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Chitimacha  
> Language Software
>
> Posted : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:02:13 GMT
> Author : Rosetta Stone Inc.
> Category : Press Release
>
> ARLINGTON, Va. - (Business Wire) Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST), a
> leading provider of technology-based language learning solutions,
> announced today the release of the Chitimacha language version of
> Rosetta Stone? software for exclusive use by the Chitimacha Tribe of
> Louisiana. Despite the death of the last fluent speaker in 1940, the
> Chitimacha tribe is reviving its language through collaboration with
> the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program. The Rosetta Stone
> immersion approach enables language learners to develop everyday
> proficiency by linking meaning and structure of a new language
> directly to real world objects and events without translation. The
> Chitimacha language version of the software has been created through a
> Rosetta Stone corporate grant with all distribution rights belonging
> to the tribe.
>
> ?We are honored that the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program can
> help the Chitimacha reclaim a piece of their heritage and cultural
> identity,? said Marion Bittinger, manager of the Rosetta Stone
> Endangered Language Program. ?We are optimistic our work with
> indigenous groups will be a step towards reversing the tide of global
> language extinction.?
>
> With no native Chitimacha speakers in existence, the tribe?s Cultural
> Department began its language revitalization program in 1997, using
> wax cylinder recordings and field notes made 65 years before by
> renowned linguist Morris Swadesh. The recordings and field notes
> allowed a few tribal members to immerse themselves in the complex
> grammar and vocabulary of the dormant language and learn to pronounce
> the difficult sequences of sounds. As a result of the grant, Rosetta
> Stone staff members collaborated in the adaptation of the software to
> teach concepts and structures using only the Chitimacha language.
>
> ?Language is really the heart of any culture. It?s not just about
> learning the words ? it?s about the connection to your past,? said
> Kimberly Walden, Cultural Director of the Chitimacha Tribe and a key
> figure in the three-year effort to customize, record and produce the
> software. ?The Rosetta Stone component of our language revitalization
> program will transform the way the Chitimacha language is taught. It
> will allow us to reach our entire membership regardless of their
> location and will enable the tribe as a whole to communicate as we did
> more than 75 years ago.?
>
> Learning with Rosetta Stone is a natural choice for language
> revitalization programs as the award-winning solutions help users
> develop language proficiency without translation, memorization or
> conjugation tables. The Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program has
> developed software for several indigenous languages, including Mohawk
> (Kanien?keha), the coastal dialect of Inupiaq in Alaska and Inuttitut
> in Labrador, Canada. The North Slope Inupiaq and Navajo languages are
> also currently under development with Rosetta Stone.
>
> For more information please visit pr.RosettaStone.com.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/rosetta-stone-endangered- 
> language-program-releases-chitimacha-language-software,1134301.shtml


From okimah at MAC.COM  Mon Jan 25 18:06:35 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:06:35 -0500
Subject: Facebook and social media
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.130635.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From gforger at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jan 25 18:14:46 2010
From: gforger at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Garry Forger)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:14:46 -0700
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <C2BE3AB5-771E-438E-A483-0DA7EB904699@mac.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.111446.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
(CERCLL) http://cercll.arizona.edu/ have links on the homepage to both
Twitter and Facebook, we use these to put out announcements about what is
going on with our organization, and news items about language issues in
general. 

Garry Forger

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:07 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jan 26 00:22:53 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:22:53 -0700
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <021201ca9dea$46cf2890$d46d79b0$@arizona.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JAN.2010.172253.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

One very good possibility for creating an advocacy network is to adapt
Ning, a freely available social networking platform.  This would take
some minor effort and commitment from somebody (a grad student, a
language advocate, or tribal member/community) but it would be nice to
have a more in-depth social advocacy-based networking in one form or
another!

ILAT could become ILAN (Indigenous Languages Advocacy Network)...

;-)

Phil Cash Cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce)
ILAT mg, UofA


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Garry Forger
<gforger at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
> (CERCLL) http://cercll.arizona.edu/ have links on the homepage to both
> Twitter and Facebook, we use these to put out announcements about what is
> going on with our organization, and news items about language issues in
> general.
>
> Garry Forger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:07 AM
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
>
> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such
> as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or
> announcements on these sites. ?One of the great things about this
> list service is receiving information about what's happening from
> various users, but I also think the whole social media network is
> another great opportunity to share this information and create a
> community.
>


From margaret.florey at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 26 07:11:29 2010
From: margaret.florey at GMAIL.COM (Margaret Florey)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:11:29 +1100
Subject: Sharing information on Facebook
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.181129.1100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi ILAT list-ers,



in response to Paul M Rickard's query about whether anyone is using
Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or announcements,
I thought I'd let you know about the Resource Network for Linguistic
Diversity. We have a Facebook Group at <
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=259697359829> that is used
to share resources for endangered languages. Our web site at <www.rnld.org>
has many different kinds of resources, including grants, training programs,
links to other blogs (including ILAT), language documentation technology and
strategies for language maintenance. RNLD also has a mailing list to which
you can post queries or share information. I hope you'll visit us!



all the best,

Margaret


-- 
Margaret Florey
Consultant linguist
Director, Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity <www.rnld.org>

Email: Margaret.Florey at gmail.com
Ph: +61 (0)4 3186-3727 (mob.)
skype: margaret_florey
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From dave_pearson at SIL.ORG  Tue Jan 26 09:57:19 2010
From: dave_pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:57:19 -0000
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <C2BE3AB5-771E-438E-A483-0DA7EB904699@mac.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.095719.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
Language.

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862?m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820

Dave Pearson

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Tue Jan 26 14:02:41 2010
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:02:41 -0600
Subject: Facebook and social media
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.080241.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

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From martin at KAMUSI.ORG  Tue Jan 26 14:35:14 2010
From: martin at KAMUSI.ORG (Martin Benjamin, Kamusi Project International)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:35:14 +0100
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <C2BE3AB5-771E-438E-A483-0DA7EB904699@mac.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.153514.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The African Languages group on Facebook (links below) has been used to
mobilize volunteers for the ANLoc 100 African Locales initiative, with quite
positive results.  Many Facebook members were among the participants who
have completed 70 locales so far, of which 54 are in final review for
acceptance by CLDR. The group now has over 1500 members.

For the UNESCO Year of Languages, many group members posted their status in
their favorite African language on the 15th of every month.

I have also been able to use Twitter constructively to find volunteers for
the ANLoc project.  For example, by searching Twitter for mentions of
"Malagasy", I was able to locate a group of people who were able to complete
several locales for Madagascar.  This technique has its limits, however -
neither Twitter, Facebook, nor any other social media have been able to
attract volunteers for some big languages such as Kirundi, nor any of the
languages of Nigeria other than the big three (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo).

Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=search&gid=4676065512

100 African Locales initiative: http://www.it46.se/afrigen

ANLoc (African Network for Localization):
http://www.africanlocalisation.net/

Best,
Martin Benjamin
http://kamusi.org

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Paul M Rickard <okimah at mac.com> wrote:

> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such as
> Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or announcements
> on these sites.  One of the great things about this list service is
> receiving information about what's happening from various users, but I also
> think the whole social media network is another great opportunity to share
> this information and create a community.
>
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From mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM  Tue Jan 26 15:25:53 2010
From: mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM (Mona Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:25:53 -0600
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <820221402.904716.1264514561990.JavaMail.root@vms181.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.092553.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ANd the Dakota Language Program at the University of Minnesota has a  
facebook page for communication...


On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:

> Mitakuyapi,
>
> I have a twitter account for my organization and I set it up to  
> tweet "something the elders say in Dakotah that you wouldn't learn  
> in a college class."  I try to send something out every Monday.   
> Phrases such as "my condolences."  Unfortunately, without the audio  
> you wouldn't learn the pronunciation unless you have someone to ask.
>
> We also have an account on youtube and have posted two "movies"  
> which are narrated books.  We are trying to get all 80 plus of our  
> books narrated.
>
> Our organization also has a facebook page and we put links to those  
> youtube videos on our facebook page also.
>
> Getting all of our language learning materials on the internet and  
> creating computer related materials  is actually the focus of our  
> organization this year.
>
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at SIL.ORG> wrote:
>
> Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
> Language.
>
> http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862? 
> m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820
>
> Dave Pearson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
> ]
> On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
> Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
>
> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such
> as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or
> announcements on these sites. One of the great things about this
> list service is receiving information about what's happening from
> various users, but I also think the whole social media network is
> another great opportunity to share this information and create a
> community.

_______________________
Mona M. Smith
media artist/producer/director
Allies, LLC

Allies: media/art
4720 32nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
763-219-1696

Indian Treaty Signers Project
Martin Case, Director
5001 1/2 34th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
indiantreatysigners at gmail.com

http://www.alliesmediaart.com











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From okimah at MAC.COM  Tue Jan 26 16:09:23 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:09:23 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.110923.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

An short excerpt of the Chitimacha episode from the documentary  
series Finding Our Talk 3 is now on Youtube.  The episode looks into  
the language revitalization of the Chitimach community in Louisiana  
using Rosetta Stone software.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzFPDuadek


From mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM  Tue Jan 26 16:44:47 2010
From: mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM (Mona Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:44:47 -0600
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <B70D9FB1-CAF1-43CE-82D3-D7795302CC20@alliesmediaart.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.104447.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Found some more NA indigenous language groups on Facebook:
Dakota Student Language Society
Tusweca Tiospaye Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit
Lakota Language Consortium
Inuktitut Language
Menominee Language
Cherokee Language
Inuit Language
Athapaskan Language Group for N, America

There could easily be more.

And many of my FB friends use the Dakota language on FB...sometimes  
translating, and sometimes not.


On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Mona Smith wrote:

> ANd the Dakota Language Program at the University of Minnesota has a  
> facebook page for communication...
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:
>
>> Mitakuyapi,
>>
>> I have a twitter account for my organization and I set it up to  
>> tweet "something the elders say in Dakotah that you wouldn't learn  
>> in a college class."  I try to send something out every Monday.   
>> Phrases such as "my condolences."  Unfortunately, without the audio  
>> you wouldn't learn the pronunciation unless you have someone to ask.
>>
>> We also have an account on youtube and have posted two "movies"  
>> which are narrated books.  We are trying to get all 80 plus of our  
>> books narrated.
>>
>> Our organization also has a facebook page and we put links to those  
>> youtube videos on our facebook page also.
>>
>> Getting all of our language learning materials on the internet and  
>> creating computer related materials  is actually the focus of our  
>> organization this year.
>>
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2010, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at SIL.ORG> wrote:
>>
>> Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
>> Language.
>>
>> http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862?m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820
>>
>> Dave Pearson
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
>> ]
>> On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
>> Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
>> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>> Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
>>
>> Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such
>> as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or
>> announcements on these sites. One of the great things about this
>> list service is receiving information about what's happening from
>> various users, but I also think the whole social media network is
>> another great opportunity to share this information and create a
>> community.
>
> _______________________
> Mona M. Smith
> media artist/producer/director
> Allies, LLC
>
> Allies: media/art
> 4720 32nd Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN 55406
> 763-219-1696
>
> Indian Treaty Signers Project
> Martin Case, Director
> 5001 1/2 34th Ave. South
> Minneapolis, MN 55406
> indiantreatysigners at gmail.com
>
> http://www.alliesmediaart.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

_______________________
Mona M. Smith
media artist/producer/director
Allies, LLC

Allies: media/art
4720 32nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
763-219-1696

Indian Treaty Signers Project
Martin Case, Director
5001 1/2 34th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
indiantreatysigners at gmail.com

http://www.alliesmediaart.com











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From hal1403 at YAHOO.COM  Tue Jan 26 22:22:08 2010
From: hal1403 at YAHOO.COM (Haley De Korne)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:22:08 -0800
Subject: Facebook and social media
In-Reply-To: <466E5BDE-05B9-4365-9A0C-E6A97BEBFDCD@alliesmediaart.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JAN.2010.142208.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

And 2 more FB groups:

Noongwa e-Anishinaabemjig: People Who Speak Anishinaabemowin Today
Anishnaabemowin SAVE THE LANGUAGE!!

Both host interesting discussions & announcements from time to time.
Best, Haley

"Language is not merely a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules.  It is a flash of the human spirit, the means by which the soul of each particular culture reaches into the material world.  Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

Wade Davis

--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Mona Smith <mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM> wrote:

From: Mona Smith <mona at ALLIESMEDIAART.COM>
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 11:44 AM

Found some more NA indigenous language groups on Facebook:Dakota Student Language Society
Tusweca Tiospaye Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit
Lakota Language Consortium
Inuktitut Language
Menominee Language
Cherokee Language
Inuit Language
Athapaskan Language Group for N, America
There could easily be more.
And many of my FB friends use the Dakota language on FB...sometimes translating, and sometimes not. ?


On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Mona Smith wrote:
ANd the Dakota Language Program at the University of Minnesota has a facebook page for communication...

On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:
Mitakuyapi,

I have a twitter account for my organization and I?set it up to tweet "something the elders say in Dakotah that you wouldn't learn in a college class."? I try to send something out every Monday.? Phrases such as "my condolences."? Unfortunately, without the audio you wouldn't learn the pronunciation unless you have someone to ask.

We?also have an account on youtube and have posted two "movies" which are narrated books.? We are trying to get all 80 plus of our books narrated.

Our organization also has a facebook page and we put?links to those youtube videos on?our facebook?page also.

Getting all of our language learning materials on the internet and creating computer related materials ?is actually?the focus of our organization this year.


Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language Program

On Jan 26, 2010, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at SIL.ORG> wrote: Don Obsborn has launched a Facebook page calling for a UN Decade for
Language.

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/183862?m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=37952820

Dave Pearson

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: 25 January 2010 18:07
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such 
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or 
announcements on these sites. One of the great things about this 
list service is receiving information about what's happening from 
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is 
another great opportunity to share this information and create a 
community.

 _______________________Mona M. Smithmedia artist/producer/directorAllies, LLC?
Allies: media/art4720 32nd Avenue SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406763-219-1696
Indian Treaty Signers ProjectMartin Case, Director5001 1/2 34th Ave. SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406indiantreatysigners at gmail.com
http://www.alliesmediaart.com









 

 _______________________Mona M. Smithmedia artist/producer/directorAllies, LLC?
Allies: media/art4720 32nd Avenue SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406763-219-1696
Indian Treaty Signers ProjectMartin Case, Director5001 1/2 34th Ave. SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406indiantreatysigners at gmail.com
http://www.alliesmediaart.com









 



      
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From sikozujohnson at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jan 27 07:33:51 2010
From: sikozujohnson at GMAIL.COM (Sikozu Johnson)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:33:51 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube
In-Reply-To: <78DEEC70-060A-4A61-938B-67CF0449A0AB@mac.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.023351.0500.>

Waciye,

Does anyone know where a girl might get a COPY of the Chitimacha program?

- Anna Johnson

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Paul M Rickard <okimah at mac.com> wrote:

> An short excerpt of the Chitimacha episode from the documentary series
> Finding Our Talk 3 is now on Youtube.  The episode looks into the language
> revitalization of the Chitimach community in Louisiana using Rosetta Stone
> software.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzFPDuadek
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From cspaulding at ROSETTASTONE.COM  Wed Jan 27 14:10:30 2010
From: cspaulding at ROSETTASTONE.COM (Spaulding, Craig)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:10:30 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube
In-Reply-To: <ff7deb831001262333q768a81e5r1ef4647dc6e0eda8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.091030.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

At this point in time the Chitimacha have made the decision to distribute the product to tribal members only. This may change in the future, however they felt like tribal members need to be given priority at this point and for the next year or so. If you are a tribal member, please contact me off list and I will put you in contact with the Cultural Director (if you aren't already) who is in charge of distribution.

Craig Spaulding

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sikozu Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:34 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Finding Our Talk Chitimacha Episode excerpt on Youtube

Waciye,

Does anyone know where a girl might get a COPY of the Chitimacha program?

- Anna Johnson
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Paul M Rickard <okimah at mac.com<mailto:okimah at mac.com>> wrote:
An short excerpt of the Chitimacha episode from the documentary series Finding Our Talk 3 is now on Youtube.  The episode looks into the language revitalization of the Chitimach community in Louisiana using Rosetta Stone software.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzFPDuadek

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From okimah at MAC.COM  Wed Jan 27 19:32:35 2010
From: okimah at MAC.COM (Paul M Rickard)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:35 -0500
Subject: Finding Our Talk video clips on Youtube channel
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.143235.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Uploaded more video clips from our documentary series "Finding Our  
Talk" that looks at the state indigenous languages around the world  
and the trailer for "From Brooklyn and Back" (Little Caughnawaga) on  
our Mushkeg Media Youtube channel. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/user/MushkegMedia

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 28 05:54:20 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:54:20 -0700
Subject: On language and Ktunaxa women (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.27.JAN.2010.225420.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

KOOTENAY WOMAN
On language and Ktunaxa women

Published: January 27, 2010 11:00 AM
by Brian Coombs, Kootenay News Advertiser

The period when the Ktunaxa first met white settlers to the present is
just a drop in the river of time they have called this region home.
For 10,000 years prior the world was a different place.

?We didn?t so much live off the land as we lived with it. It was
balanced. We took what it had to offer and we were thankful,? said
Dorothy Alpine, Ktunaxa elder and language expert.

Perhaps this balance meant they never had to create a word for
extinction--a concept they have no plans to add to their lexicon.

Across North America, indigenous peoples have lost their language at
an alarming rate. Actually, in many cases it would be more fair to say
that the language was taken from them through the use of residential
schools; where for generations it was a punishable offence for native
children to speak their mother tongue. From the US, through Canada,
more than 20 native languages have been lost--representing nearly half
of all the languages on the continent. It is hard to imagine the
despair an aging grandmother might feel knowing that her grandson will
never know his native language--a cornerstone of culture.

Access full article below:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/82812487.html


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 28 17:07:30 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:07:30 -0700
Subject: Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.28.JAN.2010.100730.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Science News

Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten

ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) ? With only 3.000 speakers in Northwest
Siberia the Ob-Ugrian language Mansi is on the verge of extinction.
Predictions say it will be extinct in ten to twenty years at the
latest. The same holds true for Khanti, a member of the same language
family. It is for this reason that extensive documentation is so
important.

Johanna Laakso, professor for Finno-Ugrian Studies at the University
of Vienna concerns herself with the documentation of this and other
minority languages in the framework of an FWF project and the EU
project ELDIA.

Access full article below:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126084059.htm


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jan 28 17:24:31 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:24:31 -0700
Subject: Fluent Arikara speaker dies (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.28.JAN.2010.102431.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Fluent Arikara speaker dies

Associated Press - January 28, 2010 9:15 AM ET
USA

WHITE SHIELD, N.D. (AP) - The Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota
says 1 of the remaining few elders who could teach the Arikara
language has died.

Maude Starr, whose American Indian name meant Yellow Calf Woman, died
Jan. 20 at the age of 71. Her funeral was held Wednesday in the Fort
Berthold Reservation community of White Shield.

Access full article below:
http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11894244


From David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG  Fri Jan 29 02:18:53 2010
From: David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG (David Lewis)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:18:53 -0800
Subject: Facebook and social media
Message-ID: <THU.28.JAN.2010.181853.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

As a follow up, is anyone using social media with their endangered or native language? 

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David G. Lewis, PhD

Manager, Cultural Resources Department

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Office 503.879.1634

David.Lewis at grandronde.org

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"Eating Popcorn, is Like Eating Little Explosions"- Saghaley Lewis 2009



-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology on behalf of Garry Forger
Sent: Mon 1/25/2010 10:14 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Facebook and social media
 
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
(CERCLL) http://cercll.arizona.edu/ have links on the homepage to both
Twitter and Facebook, we use these to put out announcements about what is
going on with our organization, and news items about language issues in
general. 

Garry Forger

-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Paul M Rickard
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:07 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Facebook and social media

Is there anyone out there using the whole social media network such  
as Facebook, Twitter, etc. in promoting language initiatives or  
announcements on these sites.  One of the great things about this  
list service is receiving information about what's happening from  
various users, but I also think the whole social media network is  
another great opportunity to share this information and create a  
community.


From teeter42 at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jan 29 02:21:11 2010
From: teeter42 at GMAIL.COM (Jennifer Teeter)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:21:11 +0900
Subject: We are Guahan: Ask for more time for review of EIS on U.S.
 military expansion
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JAN.2010.112111.0900.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

*
http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2010/01/we-are-guahan-ask-for-more-time-for.html

University of Guam Professor Michael Lujan Bevacqua
<http://minagahet.blogspot.com/>details the environmental and societal
devastation ahead for Guam if the US proceeds to expand its military bases
there (they already cover 1/3 of the island*)

>From Genevievie at *We are Guahan*: ASK FOR MORE
TIME!!!<http://www.weareguahan.com/archives/544>
:

According to federal regulations, an EIS should ?normally? be less than 150
pages. For ?proposals of unusual scope or complexity? you?d normally get 300
pages. That?s probably why the 45 day commenting period is normally
sufficient, but the 90 days given to Guam residents to review 10,000 pages
is not. ?Please make this comment on the Build Up website
http://www.guambuildupeis.us/comments/new

COMMENT:

?I request an extension of time of the public commenting period. According
to 40 CFR ? 1502.7, an EIS should typically be between 150 and 300 pages. I
do not believe that the 45 day commenting period required by 40 CFR ?
1506.10(c), nor the 90 day commenting period Guam has been given, is
reasonable considering the magnitude of the DEIS document itself and the
possible impact on the residents of Guam?.

Share This post !

More background at the *We are Guahan* <http://www.weareguahan.com/>
site; Vanessa
Warheit's blog; <http://theinsularempire.blogspot.com/> and a nutshell
summmary at our post--Does the US intend to turn Guam the next Diego
Garcia--an island turned into a massive military base by the US and UK in
1971?<http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-guam-next-diego-garcia-island-turned.html>

-- 
Greenheart Project
www.greenheartproject.org
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan 30 19:00:56 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:00:56 -0700
Subject: Ecuador: Indigenous Radio Station Spared Closure (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JAN.2010.120056.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ECUADOR: INDIGENOUS RADIO STATION SPARED CLOSURE
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/ecuador-archives-49/2340-ecuador-indigenous-radio-station-spared-closure-

Article quote:

?The Voice of Arutam? is a Shuar indigenous radio station believed to
be the only broadcaster critically informing listeners about the
possible impacts of projected oil and mining extraction in the
southern Amazon. Its bilingual programming in the Shuar language and
Spanish has also provided important services to remote indigenous
communities for decades. Arutam is the name of the Shuar spiritual
guide.


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan 30 19:03:39 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:03:39 -0700
Subject: San children risk losing language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JAN.2010.120339.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

San children risk losing language			

Written by Administrator	
FRIDAY, 29 JANUARY 2010 08:41
Nambia

Children from indigenous communities such as the San are not only
deprived of their linguistic heritage, but they later on have little
regard for their mother tongues as well as traditional and cultural
values.

This is according to Awebahe //Hoeseb, chief education officer in the
directorate of the Kunene Education Region.

Access full article below:
http://www.economist.com.na/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20879:san-children-risk-losing-language&catid=578:general-news&Itemid=60


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jan 30 19:08:18 2010
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:08:18 -0700
Subject: Researcher gives the Chumash a gift: their heritage (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JAN.2010.120818.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Researcher gives the Chumash a gift: their heritage

John Peabody Harrington relentlessly studied Indian families for
decades. Today, a 71-year-old woman who considered him a pest is
grateful for his intense scholarship.

By Steve Chawkins
January 31, 2010
USA, The LA Times

Everyone thought the tall, strange white man was some kind of genius.
But to teenage Ernestine De Soto he was a giant pain in the neck, a
nosy, "Ichabod Crane-like" character who drew her mother's attention
from its rightful place -- on her.

John Peabody Harrington studied De Soto's Chumash family for nearly 50
years, pumping her great-grandmother, her grandmother and her mother
for the tiniest details of their lives. Everything fascinated him: the
Chumash names of places mostly forgotten, of fish no longer caught --
even, to the family's puzzlement, of private parts never discussed in
polite company. A brilliant linguist and anthropologist, Harrington
had been just as relentless with countless Indian families throughout
the West, but that didn't impress the young Ernestine.

"I was just a brat to him," she said. "He'd never speak to me if he
could help it."

Toward the end of his life, Harrington was ravaged by Parkinson's
disease, and De Soto's mother spoon-fed the lonely old man. Sometimes
De Soto's 5-year-old daughter would tickle his feet. In a few months,
he would die, poor and obscure, most of his obsessively collected
notes gathering dust in barn lofts and attics. But over time his work
would profoundly influence De Soto and many other Native Americans
whose heritage was on the verge of vanishing.

Access full article below:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ernestine31-2010jan31,0,2405463,full.story