From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Fri Dec 2 19:46:34 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:46:34 -0500 Subject: FW: Making sense of Attawapiskat & What the Canadian Gov't Says (The best commentary I've seen) Message-ID: Thanks Al... ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -----Original Message----- From: A Hunter [mailto:alhunter58 at gmail.com] Sent: December-02-11 10:29 AM Subject: Re: Making sense of Attawapiskat & What the Canadian Gov't Says (The best commentary I've seen) http://apihtawikosisan.wordpress.com/ DISTRIBUTE & SHARE WIDELY. Al Hunter From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 5 15:28:00 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:28:00 -0700 Subject: 3D animation helps preserve Indigenous history (fwd link) Message-ID: 3D animation helps preserve Indigenous history December 5th, 2011 A ground-breaking new venture between Monash University’s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Information Technology (IT) is striving to preserve the history of Australia’s Indigenous population. When the British flag was first raised in Sydney Cove 222 years ago there were 250 languages spoken by Indigenous Australians. Now, less than half remain. Through the use of state-of-the-art 3D animation technology, researchers are working to recreate the dreamtime stories of the Yanyuwa people, located on the South-West coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Currently, only a handful of elders are fluent in the language – the last custodians of ancient songs, stories and customs bound up in the vocabulary. Access full article below: http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/84525423/3d-animation-helps-preserve-indigenous-history.html From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 5 15:31:06 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:31:06 -0700 Subject: Indigenous dictionary released on Straddie (fwd link) Message-ID: Indigenous dictionary released on Straddie JUDITH KERR 05 Dec, 2011 12:00 AM Queensland NORTH Stradbroke Island has its own indigenous dictionary, called the Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-in-Council Jandai Language Dictionary. The 126-page hard cover book, compiled by The Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-in-Council and the Straddie Sand Mining Community Fund, was launched in Dunwich last month. Access full article below: http://www.baysidebulletin.com.au/news/local/news/general/indigenous-dictionary-released-on-straddie/2381766.aspx From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Mon Dec 5 21:55:19 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 16:55:19 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... Message-ID: No comment...the video says it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU Mon Dec 5 23:43:55 2011 From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:43:55 -1000 Subject: FINAL REMINDER: TCLT7 Call for Proposals Deadline Message-ID: Aloha! 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Paula ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > No comment...the video says it.... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded > > &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > From richard.littauer at GMAIL.COM Tue Dec 6 08:36:40 2011 From: richard.littauer at GMAIL.COM (Richard Littauer) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:36:40 +0000 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: <20111205232031.D9YI1.239892.imail@fed1rmwml114> Message-ID: This video isn't available in Germany; any chance someone can give me a summary of the message? Thanks, Richard On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Paula Meyer wrote: > Rolland, you always have important things to share. I sent this on to me > colleagues teaching eighth grade who should be paying attention to the many > realizations and metamorphoses that are happening with their students, > instead of being consumed by meaningless testing and test scores. > Thanks. > Paula > ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > > No comment...the video says it.... > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded > > > > &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg > > > > ------- > > wahjeh > > rolland nadjiwon > > ___________________________________________ > > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > > > > -- Richard Littauer MSc Computational Linguistics University of Saarland http://www.rlittauer.com | @richlitt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From resa.bizzaro at IUP.EDU Tue Dec 6 16:43:15 2011 From: resa.bizzaro at IUP.EDU (Resa C Bizzaro) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: <20111205232031.D9YI1.239892.imail@fed1rmwml114> Message-ID: Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 20:20:31 -0800 Paula Meyer wrote: > Rolland, you always have important things to share. I sent this on >to me colleagues teaching eighth grade who should be paying attention >to the many realizations and metamorphoses that are happening with >their students, instead of being consumed by meaningless testing and >test scores. > Thanks. > Paula > ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: >> No comment...the video says it.... >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded >> >> &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg >> >> ------- >> wahjeh >> rolland nadjiwon >> ___________________________________________ >> Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... >> >> >> From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Tue Dec 6 17:17:04 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:17:04 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yes, I was aware of the controversy. However, I thought the impact of the message was more important than the truth or falsity of the video. Being bullied is not something most young people want to talk about. Most bullying happens in silence and even fabricated stories to protect themselves amongst peers. There have been far too many young people committing suicide as the end product of bullying and those are only the ones we hear about. If not suicide, the damage is often demonstrated in the incredible increases in drug and alcohol addiction in youth and often in overdose deaths. Most of the messages and information passed on today is done so by actors...what is the truth or falsity in our world of everything being an advertisement commercial. We have allowed ourselves the deceptions of a bureaucratic culture in an age of illusion. We may need to wave even more flags. I realize this is not list for 'soap boxing' ...editorializing maybe... Resa, following the comments, to me, clearly indicated I would not want to be in close relation or proximity of some of those respondents...many of them were tantamount to bullying...amazing. ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Resa C Bizzaro Sent: December-06-11 11:43 AM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Re: [ILAT] What's going on.... Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa From pmeyer8 at COX.NET Tue Dec 6 18:15:09 2011 From: pmeyer8 at COX.NET (Paula Meyer) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:15:09 -0800 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Rolland, The complainers about "truth" put me in mind of those who attacked Rigoberta Menchu. Rigoberta may have collapsed several people into one and changed her relationship to some of them, but the overall message in her book of the oppression of her family and her people is absolutely true. There are many definitions of "truth." For example, there are chronicles taken verbatim from a particular incident, and there are personal histories that come from a person's perception of events. Both are true. In a way, the narrator's perceptions hold more "truth" or meaning than "objective" documentation. This issue comes up a lot when narratives of oppressed people are read or heard by the oppressors. Paula ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > Yes, I was aware of the controversy. However, I thought the impact of the > message was more important than the truth or falsity of the video. Being > bullied is not something most young people want to talk about. Most bullying > happens in silence and even fabricated stories to protect themselves amongst > peers. There have been far too many young people committing suicide as the > end product of bullying and those are only the ones we hear about. If not > suicide, the damage is often demonstrated in the incredible increases in > drug and alcohol addiction in youth and often in overdose deaths. Most of > the messages and information passed on today is done so by actors...what is > the truth or falsity in our world of everything being an advertisement > commercial. We have allowed ourselves the deceptions of a bureaucratic > culture in an age of illusion. We may need to wave even more flags. > I realize this is not list for 'soap boxing' ...editorializing maybe... > Resa, following the comments, to me, clearly indicated I would not want to > be in close relation or proximity of some of those respondents...many of > them were tantamount to bullying...amazing. > > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Resa C Bizzaro > Sent: December-06-11 11:43 AM > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Subject: Re: [ILAT] What's going on.... > > Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it > yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found > out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is > actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. > I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see > if the video was a hoax or not. > > Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to > be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through > my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation > programs in our public schools are not working. > > Resa From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 6 18:18:34 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:18:34 -0700 Subject: The Internet: A lifeboat for endangered languages? (fwd link) Message-ID: The Internet: A lifeboat for endangered languages? Published 30 November 2011 - Updated 05 December 2011 Although the English language continues to dominate the Internet, the rise of global economic powerhouses like China and Russia has seen a surge in what used to be considered second-tier languages, a Brussels conference heard last week. Meanwhile, the UN predicts that half of the world's 6,000 languages will become extinct by the end of the century. Access full article below: http://www.euractiv.com/culture/internet-lifeboat-endangered-languages-news-509285 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 6 18:20:53 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:20:53 -0700 Subject: Language may trump race for young kids (fwd link) Message-ID: Language may trump race for young kids Society & Culture - Posted by William Harms-Chicago on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 U. CHICAGO (US) — Researchers have found that for younger white children, language can loom larger than race in defining a person’s identity. Access full article below: http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/language-may-trump-race-for-young-kids/ From hardman at UFL.EDU Tue Dec 6 19:26:50 2011 From: hardman at UFL.EDU (Dr. MJ Hardman) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:26:50 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: <20111206131509.ZC96E.244167.imail@fed1rmwml106> Message-ID: Indeed. I remember the attacks on Rigoberta Menchu, and they angered me so, for the very reasons you say. The reality of reprisal is always there; such reorganization is necessary and does not change the "truth". Even in teaching I have found, as I think I have said before on this list, that I can convince students better with a novel than with an ethnography. I use SF for this purpose. Truth is stranger than fiction? Or Fiction is truer than history. MJ On 12/6/11 1:15 PM, "Paula Meyer" wrote: > Rolland, > The complainers about "truth" put me in mind of those who attacked Rigoberta > Menchu. Rigoberta may have collapsed several people into one and changed her > relationship to some of them, but the overall message in her book of the > oppression of her family and her people is absolutely true. There are many > definitions of "truth." For example, there are chronicles taken verbatim from > a particular incident, and there are personal histories that come from a > person's perception of events. Both are true. In a way, the narrator's > perceptions hold more "truth" or meaning than "objective" documentation. This > issue comes up a lot when narratives of oppressed people are read or heard by > the oppressors. > Paula > ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: >> Yes, I was aware of the controversy. However, I thought the impact of the >> message was more important than the truth or falsity of the video. Being >> bullied is not something most young people want to talk about. Most bullying >> happens in silence and even fabricated stories to protect themselves amongst >> peers. There have been far too many young people committing suicide as the >> end product of bullying and those are only the ones we hear about. If not >> suicide, the damage is often demonstrated in the incredible increases in >> drug and alcohol addiction in youth and often in overdose deaths. Most of >> the messages and information passed on today is done so by actors...what is >> the truth or falsity in our world of everything being an advertisement >> commercial. We have allowed ourselves the deceptions of a bureaucratic >> culture in an age of illusion. We may need to wave even more flags. >> I realize this is not list for 'soap boxing' ...editorializing maybe... >> Resa, following the comments, to me, clearly indicated I would not want to >> be in close relation or proximity of some of those respondents...many of >> them were tantamount to bullying...amazing. >> >> >> ------- >> wahjeh >> rolland nadjiwon >> ___________________________________________ >> Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] >> On Behalf Of Resa C Bizzaro >> Sent: December-06-11 11:43 AM >> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU >> Subject: Re: [ILAT] What's going on.... >> >> Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it >> yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found >> out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is >> actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. >> I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see >> if the video was a hoax or not. >> >> Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to >> be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through >> my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation >> programs in our public schools are not working. >> >> Resa > Dr. MJ Hardman Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology Department of Linguistics University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú website: http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/ From saxon at UVIC.CA Tue Dec 6 22:09:21 2011 From: saxon at UVIC.CA (Leslie Saxon) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:09:21 -0800 Subject: FW: Master's Degree in Indigenous Language Revitalization- Application Deadline January 15th 2012 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: A new program offered jointly by Linguistics and Indigenous Education at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Though there is a focus on the local context of our province, this program is open to those from all other locations who are committed to Indigenous language revitalization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Good Afternoon, Apologies for cross posting. REMINDER — January 15 application deadline is approaching for the new UVIC Graduate program in Indigenous language revitalization! As the application deadline approaches for the first intake of Graduate Students for the Master's Degree in Indigenous Language Revitalization we wanted to send out some more information about the program. Please find attached a full course list including descriptions of the courses, the application package and admissions/exceptional entry/application information. Nick Claxton, the Indigenous Education Advisor, is here to help students through the application process for this Program. Please feel free to contact any of us in Indigenous Education for more information or assistance in your application. Nick Claxton: Indigenous Education Advisor/Coordinator Iedadvis at uvic.ca 250-721-8389 Kaitlyn Charlie Language Programs Assistant Iedlpa at uvic.ca 250-721-7824 Please distribute widely. Thank you very much. We look forward to working with our future Language Leaders. Kind Regards, -- Kaitlyn Charlie Indigenous Education Language Programs Assistant University of Victoria phone: 250.721.7824 fax: 250.853.3943 email: iedlpa at uvic.ca wrk wk: mon-thurs 830am-300pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ApplicationPkg.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 358575 bytes Desc: ApplicationPkg.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Wed Dec 7 16:15:50 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:15:50 -0600 Subject: What's going on... In-Reply-To: <20111206222208.19nsi884wg8wcso8@www.email.arizona.edu> Message-ID: a real philosophical study thats been wrestled with for eons and worth pursuing still, the various cultural differences between given "truth" its relation to the newer concept - "fact" where they intersect, and when they seem to be such opposite forces,people feel like they must choose between the two. Love this kind of wrestling because it keeps stretching the cellophane covering our hardened definitions. "reality" is much more illusive and slippery than we often want. noun obsessed languages really do present their own term problems. if "everything" includes "*everything"* ...how could "everything" exclude "nothing?" Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rudy Troike wrote: > Howdy, > > I agree with Resa that the message is more important that the biographical > accuracy, and people who want to focus on the latter are trying to subvert > the message. But it was hard to look at Jonah's face and not believe that > this was real. The tears certainly don't seem manufactured. > > Rudy > > > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 > Subject: Re: What's going on.... > From: Resa C Bizzaro > > Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it > yesterday, > and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that > there > is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some > postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into > the > videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. > > Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us > to be > vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my > own > experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs > in > our public schools are not working. > > Resa > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 17:49:38 2011 From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudy Troike) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:49:38 -0700 Subject: What's going on... Message-ID: Richard, Thanks for this comment -- we're getting a bit off-topic for this list, but your remarks made me recall the instructions of the judge the last time I was on a jury. We were instructed to "determine the truth from the facts". The 'truth' was not given, but was to be determined on the basis of the 'facts'. That's a quite different orientation, but interesting nonetheless. Rudy Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:15:50 -0600 Subject: Re: What's going on... From: Richard Zane Smith a real philosophical study thats been wrestled with for eons and worth pursuing still, the various cultural differences between given "truth" its relation to the newer concept - "fact" where they intersect, and when they seem to be such opposite forces,people feel like they must choose between the two. Love this kind of wrestling because it keeps stretching the cellophane covering our hardened definitions. "reality" is much more illusive and slippery than we often want. noun obsessed languages really do present their own term problems. if "everything" includes "everything" ...how could "everything" exclude "nothing?" Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rudy Troike wrote: Howdy, I agree with Resa that the message is more important that the biographical accuracy, and people who want to focus on the latter are trying to subvert the message. But it was hard to look at Jonah's face and not believe that this was real. The tears certainly don't seem manufactured. Rudy Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 Subject: Re: What's going on.... From: Resa C Bizzaro Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:42:20 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:42:20 -0700 Subject: Fwd: nili: "Language Revitalization in the 21st Century" Conference Information and Call for Posters In-Reply-To: <4EE0F28D.2070307@uoregon.edu> Message-ID: FYI from the NILI listserv. Thanks NILI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Northwest Indian Language Institute Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM Hello All, Below is a link to Conference Information and Call for Posters for the CUNY Graduate Center and the International Centre for Language Revitalisation of the Auckland University of Technology for the "Language Revitalization in the 21st Century" symposium.  This is a two-day symposium to be held in New York City May 31-June 1, 2012. Keynot speakers will be Dr. Timoti Kāretu, Maori, and Jesse Little Doe Baird, Wôpanâak. For more information, please visit: http://opencuny.org/languagerevitalizationinthe21stcentury/ -- Northwest Indian Language Institute University of Oregon 1629 Moss Street Eugene, Oregon 97403 Phone: (541) 346-0730 Fax: (541) 346-6086 Web: Northwest Indian Language Institute Social: Facebook From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:48:45 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:48:45 -0700 Subject: Step to honour our first people (fwd link) Message-ID: Step to honour our first people Michael Gordon December 9, 2011 AUS AUSTRALIANS will be asked to change the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and languages, prohibit racial discrimination and remove the last vestiges of racism in the nation's founding document under a blueprint approved yesterday. An expert panel appointed by the Gillard government has proposed that recognition of indigenous Australians be attached to a new power to legislate for the advancement of the original Australians, their languages and their culture. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/step-to-honour-our-first-people-20111208-1olhc.html#ixzz1fzCll6Vb From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:50:09 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:50:09 -0700 Subject: Assembly of First Nations Welcomes the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples Report on First Nations Education as Transformative and Progressive (fwd link) Message-ID: Assembly of First Nations Welcomes the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples Report on First Nations Education as Transformative and Progressive Canada NewsWire OTTAWA, Dec. 8, 2011 OTTAWA, Dec. 8, 2011 /CNW/ - Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo today welcomed the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples report titled: Reforming First Nations Education: From Crisis to Hope: "This is an important contribution by the Senate committee to our Call to Action on First Nations education. They have acknowledged that "fundamental, systemic change is required to replace an antiquated system of isolated and improperly resourced First Nations schools with the necessary organizational infrastructure needed for a 21st Century school system," National Chief Atleo added." We are pleased that the committee also noted "The time to act is now. We must seize on the growing momentum and consensus on the need for reform." Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/517053#ixzz1fzD5FuEq From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:51:54 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:51:54 -0700 Subject: NSU offers Cherokee language program (fwd link) Message-ID: NSU offers Cherokee language program 12/7/2011 8:14:24 AM By TESINA JACKSON Reporter USA TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – In a cooperative effort between Northeastern State University and the Cherokee Nation, the Cherokee Education Degree Program allows students to major in the Cherokee language and give them the capability to teach how to speak, read and write Cherokee. “This cultural understanding opens all sorts of doors to careers, not jobs,” said Dr. Leslie Hannah, director of the Cherokee studies and language programs at NSU. “I make a distinct difference between jobs and careers. A job is something one does for a check. A career is something one does for life and these Cherokee language and culture courses change lives and create lifelong learners who in turn become life changers.” Access full article below: http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/5748 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:53:11 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:53:11 -0700 Subject: Backyard Initiative update: Harvesting learning from the Dakota Language Revitalization Citizen Health Action Team (fwd link) Message-ID: Backyard Initiative update: Harvesting learning from the Dakota Language Revitalization Citizen Health Action Team BY JANICE BARBEE AND MADELINE GARDNER, THE ALLEY December 06, 2011 USA Residents of seven neighborhoods in south Minneapolis (in the area around Allina Health System’s headquarters) have been implementing their ideas for health improvement for the past year with the support of Allina and the Cultural Wellness Center. The Dakota Language Revitalization Citizen Health Action Team (CHAT) was the first project to be approved by the Community Commission on Health and the members of this CHAT (made up primarily of Dakota community residents) have been going through a reflection or harvesting process to pull out their learning from their experiences and share it with the Commission, with other CHATs, and with the community. The Dakota Language Revitalization CHAT was formed out of the recognition that the health of a culture is essential to the health of a people and language is how culture and world view are transmitted. The Dakota language is at a crisis point right now; one CHAT member estimates there are only five fluent Dakota speakers left in the state of MN. The vision of the CHAT was that Dakota children learn their language at an early age, and their strategy was to start a day care for young children where they would be immersed in the Dakota language. Access full article below: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2011/12/06/backyard-initiative-update-harvesting-learning-dakota-language-revitalization-citize From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Fri Dec 9 15:46:00 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:46:00 -0600 Subject: What's going on... In-Reply-To: <20111208104938.264o4ocw0coks800@www.email.arizona.edu> Message-ID: Rudy that is interesting!... and maybe its the best we can do to come up with a universal app. Whoever has the highest stack of "facts" wins. No wonder there are so many poor in prison. Professional "fact stackers" are expensive to rent. off topic?...hmm well..maybe throw in something about the latest NDN XPod we'll be fine I enjoy this silly computer for its wizardry - but I'm still a die hard stone age techie After all, This IS the season to be careful selecting and cutting arrow shaft shoots...wild rose,hazel,and dogwood. -Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Rudy Troike wrote: > Richard, > > Thanks for this comment -- we're getting a bit off-topic for this list, > but your remarks made me recall the instructions of the judge the last > time I was on a jury. We were instructed to "determine the truth from the > facts". The 'truth' was not given, but was to be determined on the basis > of the 'facts'. That's a quite different orientation, but interesting > nonetheless. > > Rudy > > > Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:15:50 -0600 > Subject: Re: What's going on... > From: Richard Zane Smith > > a real philosophical study thats been wrestled with for eons and worth > pursuing > still, the various cultural differences between given "truth" its relation > to > the newer concept - "fact" where they intersect, and when they seem to be > such > opposite forces,people feel like they must choose between the two. > Love this kind of wrestling because it keeps stretching the cellophane > covering > our hardened definitions. "reality" is much more illusive and slippery > than we > often want. noun obsessed languages really do present their own term > problems. > > if "everything" includes "everything" ...how could "everything" exclude > "nothing?" > > Richard > Wyandotte Oklahoma > > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rudy Troike > wrote: > > Howdy, > > I agree with Resa that the message is more important that the > biographical > accuracy, and people who want to focus on the latter are trying to > subvert > the message. But it was hard to look at Jonah's face and not believe > that > this was real. The tears certainly don't seem manufactured. > > Rudy > > > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 > Subject: Re: What's going on.... > From: Resa C Bizzaro > > Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it > yesterday, > and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that > there > is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some > postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into > the > videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. > > Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us > to be > vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my > own > experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs > in > our public schools are not working. > > Resa > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 9 19:21:39 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:21:39 -0700 Subject: ILAT goes NYT... Message-ID: Greetings folks, ILAT got a nice shout out from the New York Times today! "An Internet discussion group, Indigenous Languages and Technology, is full of announcements for new software to build sound dictionaries and a project to collect tweets in Tok Pisin, a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea, or Pipil, an indigenous language of El Salvador." ~~~ Everyone Speaks Text Message By TINA ROSENBERG Published: December 9, 2011 When Ibrahima Traore takes his sons to a park in Montclair, N.J., he often sits on a bench and reads. He reads English, French and Arabic, but most of the time he reads N’Ko, a language few speakers of those languages would recognize. N’Ko is the standardized writing system for Mande languages, a family of closely related tongues — among them Traore’s language of Mandinka, but also Jula, Bamana, Koyaga, Marka — spoken, for the most part, in eight West African countries, by some 35 million people. N’Ko looks like a cross between Arabic and ancient Norse runes, written from right to left in a blocky script with the letters connected underneath. Traore types e-mail to his family on his laptop in N’Ko, works on his Web site in N’Ko, tweets in N’Ko on his iPhone and iPad and reads books and newspapers written in N’Ko to prepare for the N’Ko classes he teaches in the Bronx and for his appearances on an Internet radio program to discuss cultural issues around the use of N’Ko. Access full article below: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/everyone-speaks-text-message.html From Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM Fri Dec 9 19:24:31 2011 From: Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM (Basla Andolsun) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:24:31 -0500 Subject: ILAT goes NYT... In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: Congratulations, Phil! That's very exciting! Basla -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 2:22 PM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: [ILAT] ILAT goes NYT... Greetings folks, ILAT got a nice shout out from the New York Times today! "An Internet discussion group, Indigenous Languages and Technology, is full of announcements for new software to build sound dictionaries and a project to collect tweets in Tok Pisin, a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea, or Pipil, an indigenous language of El Salvador." ~~~ Everyone Speaks Text Message By TINA ROSENBERG Published: December 9, 2011 When Ibrahima Traore takes his sons to a park in Montclair, N.J., he often sits on a bench and reads. He reads English, French and Arabic, but most of the time he reads N'Ko, a language few speakers of those languages would recognize. N'Ko is the standardized writing system for Mande languages, a family of closely related tongues - among them Traore's language of Mandinka, but also Jula, Bamana, Koyaga, Marka - spoken, for the most part, in eight West African countries, by some 35 million people. N'Ko looks like a cross between Arabic and ancient Norse runes, written from right to left in a blocky script with the letters connected underneath. Traore types e-mail to his family on his laptop in N'Ko, works on his Web site in N'Ko, tweets in N'Ko on his iPhone and iPad and reads books and newspapers written in N'Ko to prepare for the N'Ko classes he teaches in the Bronx and for his appearances on an Internet radio program to discuss cultural issues around the use of N'Ko. Access full article below: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/everyone-speaks-text-message. html From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Sun Dec 11 00:03:48 2011 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:03:48 -0700 Subject: Nice article about Phil Cash Cash in the UA news! Message-ID: Hi all, Apologies if this was cross-posted, but our own Phil Cash Cash makes the new again! http://grad.arizona.edu/system/files/2.DRAFT_Phil%20Cash%20Cash_Photo-Story.pdf -- ********************************************************************************************** *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. * Research Coordinator, CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry University of Arizona Phone: (520) 626-8071 Fax: (520) 626-3313 Website: cercll.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Now if we can get our tribal members and families to somehow understand this..... ske:noh Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Susan Penfield wrote: > Hi all, > Apologies if this was cross-posted, but our own Phil Cash Cash makes the > new again! > > > > http://grad.arizona.edu/system/files/2.DRAFT_Phil%20Cash%20Cash_Photo-Story.pdf > -- > > ********************************************************************************************** > *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. > * > Research Coordinator, > CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy > CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry > University of Arizona > Phone: (520) 626-8071 > Fax: (520) 626-3313 > Website: cercll.arizona.edu > > > > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Phil Cash Cash ILAT UofA From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 12 19:22:28 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:22:28 -0700 Subject: Fwd: article on multilingual internet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: fyi... The author gave his generous permission to post this link to ILAT. Thanks Nicholas. Phil UofA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicholas John Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:52 AM Subject: article on multilingual internet To: cashcash at u.arizona.edu Dear Phillip I'm writing to tell you about an article I've written on the multilingual internet. You and the members of the mailing list you run may find it interesting. A pre-publication draft is available here: http://www.sociothink.com/The%20Construction%20of%20the%20Multilingual%20Internet%20pre-final%20draft%20Nicholas%20John.pdf The article is titled "The Construction of the Multilingual Internet: Unicode, Hebrew and Globalization" I hope this is of some interest, Best Nicholas @nicholasajohn www.sociothink.com From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 12 20:35:24 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:35:24 -0700 Subject: Arizona has most Indian language speakers (fwd link) Message-ID: Arizona has most Indian language speakers Published: Dec. 11, 2011 at 7:49 PM USA WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Apache County in Arizona has 37,000 speakers of an American Indian language, the highest concentration in the nation, the U.S. Census Bureau says. A report by the bureau's American FactFinder said although the majority of American Indian language speakers reside in areas where there are concentrated populations of American Indians or Alaskan indigenous peoples, only 5 percent of the residents of those areas speak a tribal language. Sixty-five percent of tribal language speakers live in just three states -- Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico. Nine counties within the three states contain half the nation's tribal language speakers, the report said. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/12/11/Arizona-has-most-Indian-language-speakers/UPI-82861323650994/#ixzz1gM3HQRxc From lang.support at GMAIL.COM Mon Dec 12 23:31:50 2011 From: lang.support at GMAIL.COM (Andrew Cunningham) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:31:50 +1100 Subject: Fwd: article on multilingual internet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Interesting article trying to address a complicated issue. as indicated ISO/IEC 8859-8 and SI 1311 (used for Hebrew) could be in visual or logical form, but what the article seems to neglect is that ISO/IEC 8859-6 and ASMO 708 (used for Arabic) is logical. Unicode would have needed a unified approach to directionality, esp since other scripts (Syriac, Thaana and N'ko) are also written right to left. Nor does it mention that one of the requirements of Unicode was backwards compatibility with existing national standards. This, combined with the lack of a visual encoding for Arabic ... and that some of the early Thaana and Syriac solutions tended to leverage off Arabic support ... Nor is there a discussion around the limitations on constraints on typesetting and typography caused by 8-bit encodings Nor the issues of supporting minority languages on the web using non-IANA registered encodings. Nor typesetting requirements of academic use of Hebrew not supported by ISO/IEC 8859-8 Nor the need, in some cases, to mix Hebrew (or Arabic script) text with text in other languages. Just some initial impressions. The reality is that we still have a long way to go in developing a multilingual web, but I suspect that encoding and directionality issues are the least of the problems. HTML and CSS is heavily influenced by Western European typographic and typesetting conventions. But that said some interesting work is occurring: improvements to bidirectional support in HTML5 and CSS3, Ruby, additions to text layout, lists and fonts in CSS3,etc. The Japanese Layout Task Force has published a fascinating document on the typesetting needs of Japanese on the web. Ideally other languages and scripts should receive similar attention. Andrew On 13 December 2011 06:22, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > fyi... > > The author gave his generous permission to post this link to ILAT. > Thanks Nicholas. > > Phil > UofA > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nicholas John > Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:52 AM > Subject: article on multilingual internet > To: cashcash at u.arizona.edu > > > Dear Phillip > > I'm writing to tell you about an article I've written on the > multilingual internet. You and the members of the mailing list you run > may find it interesting. > > A pre-publication draft is available here: > http://www.sociothink.com/The%20Construction%20of%20the%20Multilingual%20Internet%20pre-final%20draft%20Nicholas%20John.pdf > > The article is titled "The Construction of the Multilingual Internet: > Unicode, Hebrew and Globalization" > I hope this is of some interest, > > Best > Nicholas > > @nicholasajohn > www.sociothink.com -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andrewc at vicnet.net.au lang.support at gmail.com From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 13 19:22:02 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:22:02 -0700 Subject: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools (fwd link) Message-ID: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 14:05 By BEN GOAD, The Press-Enterprise washington USA WASHINGTON - Seeking to improve an education system he says is failing Indian country, a House lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's tribal schools. Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would provide increased Indian access to funding for at-risk youths and early childhood education, more adult literacy programs tailored for Native Americans and a scholarship program for tribal members studying to become teachers, among other provisions. The bill is called the Native Culture, Language and Access for Success in Schools -- or Native CLASS -- Act. The bill would provide tribal schools with greater control of the schools and curriculum, allowing tribal educators to incorporate their culture into classrooms on reservations. "It allows our tribal schools to use native languages as a primary language of instruction," Baca said. Access full article below: http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/legislation-aims-give-indians-more-control-over-their-schools From pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET Tue Dec 13 19:36:02 2011 From: pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET (Phil Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:36:02 -0700 Subject: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Can somebody please keep an eye on this legislation? It sounds awesome. Phil On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools > > Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 14:05 > By BEN GOAD, The Press-Enterprise washington > USA > > WASHINGTON - Seeking to improve an education system he says is failing > Indian country, a House lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's tribal > schools. > > Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would > provide increased Indian access to funding for at-risk youths and > early childhood education, more adult literacy programs tailored for > Native Americans and a scholarship program for tribal members studying > to become teachers, among other provisions. The bill is called the > Native Culture, Language and Access for Success in Schools -- or > Native CLASS -- Act. > > The bill would provide tribal schools with greater control of the > schools and curriculum, allowing tribal educators to incorporate their > culture into classrooms on reservations. > > "It allows our tribal schools to use native languages as a primary > language of instruction," Baca said. > > Access full article below: > http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/legislation-aims-give-indians-more-control-over-their-schools > From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 13 19:40:16 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:40:16 -0700 Subject: Elections officials grapple with Native American language rule (fwd link) Message-ID: Elections officials grapple with Native American language rule Requests for Yuma have some stumped Posted Dec 12, 2011, 10:10 am Uriel J. Garcia Cronkite News Service USA WASHINGTON — Coconino County election officials have provided translators at the polls for Navajo speakers. They have done the same for Hopi voters. But Yuma has them stumped. “There has never been a request for (Yuma),” said Coconino County Elections Administrator Patty Hansen. “So now we’re trying to find someone who can speak that language.” Coconino was one of three Arizona counties that were told by the federal government in October that they would have to add voting assistance in the obscure language, which previously had been required only of Yuma County. Access full article below: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/121211_elex_native_languages/elections-officials-grapple-with-native-american-language-rule/ From bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM Tue Dec 13 20:43:26 2011 From: bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM (BSantaMaria) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:43:26 -0700 Subject: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The problem comes in when terminology-- which schools will be affected on those reservations that have more than one type of system--ours has tribal school, BIA (or fed. gov't) schools, mission, and public schools governed by AZ state school districts. The latter is the most problematic on our rez; their administrators for several years have not allowed for enough Apache lang/culture teaching for enough hours/week to make a difference for students. If this legislation is aimed at the public school system, and passes, then that is what I would consider cause for celebration. Bernadette A. SantaMaria White Mountain Apache-- On 12/13/11, Phil Cash Cash wrote: > Can somebody please keep an eye on this legislation? It sounds awesome. > > Phil > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > >> Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools >> >> Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 14:05 >> By BEN GOAD, The Press-Enterprise washington >> USA >> >> WASHINGTON - Seeking to improve an education system he says is failing >> Indian country, a House lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's tribal >> schools. >> >> Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would >> provide increased Indian access to funding for at-risk youths and >> early childhood education, more adult literacy programs tailored for >> Native Americans and a scholarship program for tribal members studying >> to become teachers, among other provisions. The bill is called the >> Native Culture, Language and Access for Success in Schools -- or >> Native CLASS -- Act. >> >> The bill would provide tribal schools with greater control of the >> schools and curriculum, allowing tribal educators to incorporate their >> culture into classrooms on reservations. >> >> "It allows our tribal schools to use native languages as a primary >> language of instruction," Baca said. >> >> Access full article below: >> http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/legislation-aims-give-indians-more-control-over-their-schools >> > From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU Wed Dec 14 03:15:23 2011 From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:15:23 -1000 Subject: Position: Language Learning Center Director, University of Hawaii at Manoa Message-ID: DIRECTOR, Language Learning Center (LLC), College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL), University of Hawai'i at Manoa (position #82463), full-time, 11-month tenure-track faculty position, rank S3, pending position clearance and availability of funds, to begin August 1, 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter. Rank S3 corresponds to assistant professor. The LLC advances the use of technology in language teaching and learning. The LLC's facilties include open computer labs, technology-equipped classrooms, audio and video production and teleconferencing facilities, and file and web servers. The staff includes information technology personnel, video and educational specialists, and graduate and undergraduate student assistants. The Director reports to the Dean of the College and is responsible for overall direction of the LLC. The faculty position is tenure-track; the position of Director is for a three-year renewable term. 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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 05:41:11 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:41:11 -0700 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) Message-ID: 14 December, 2011 2:22PM ACST IndigiTUBE an outback video star By Nadine Maloney (Field reporter) AUS Nevermind Youtube with it's billions of dollars and slick graphics, the video file sharing site that has everyone out bush in a buzz was created in Australia especially for videos made by Aboriginal people living in remote communities. The internet really does come in handy for many things, including how to waste a good chunk of your day watching videos. At the click of a mouse you can easily view clips from all over the world. But if you're an Indigenous Australian, where on the internet can you see videos from your own community and in your own language? An Alice Springs based community funded organisation, Indigenous Community Television, has created a website it says is the voice of remote Indigenous Australia. IndigiTUBE is a website only featuring content uploaded by Indigenous users. Access full article below: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/12/14/3391027.htm From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 05:43:20 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:43:20 -0700 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: URL IndigiTUBE http://www.indigitube.com.au/ On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > 14 December, 2011 2:22PM ACST > > IndigiTUBE an outback video star > > By Nadine Maloney (Field reporter) > AUS > > Nevermind Youtube with it's billions of dollars and slick graphics, > the video file sharing site that has everyone out bush in a buzz was > created in Australia especially for videos made by Aboriginal people > living in remote communities. > > The internet really does come in handy for many things, including how > to waste a good chunk of your day watching videos. > > At the click of a mouse you can easily view clips from all over the world. > > But if you're an Indigenous Australian, where on the internet can you > see videos from your own community and in your own language? > > An Alice Springs based community funded organisation, Indigenous > Community Television, has created a website it says is the voice of > remote Indigenous Australia. > > IndigiTUBE is a website only featuring content uploaded by Indigenous users. > > Access full article below: > http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/12/14/3391027.htm From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Wed Dec 14 06:51:25 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:25 -0500 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Great sit Phillip...I couldn't stop watching...made be feel right back home with the people...lol. ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash Sent: December-14-11 12:43 AM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Re: [ILAT] IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) URL IndigiTUBE http://www.indigitube.com.au/ From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 20:10:05 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:10:05 -0700 Subject: Navajo tops list of Native language speakers in US Message-ID: Navajo tops list of Native language speakers in US By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Published: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 - 10:52 am USA FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A northeastern Arizona county has the highest number of Native American language speakers in the country. The U.S. Census Bureau says Apache County in eastern Arizona has 37,000 such speakers. The county encompasses parts of the Navajo Nation, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation and Zuni Pueblo. Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/14/4122557/navajo-tops-list-of-native-language.html#ixzz1gXdqLNxm From sadongei at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 21:07:15 2011 From: sadongei at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Sadongei, Alyce - (sadongei)) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:07:15 -0800 Subject: Workshop Announcement Message-ID: February is a great time to be in Tucson.... Mark your calendars Friday, February 10 and Saturday, February 11, 2012 to attend an entirely hands-on, experiential (not theoretical!) workshop to introduce and demonstrate a new and unconventional method for language learning. Go to http://aildi.arizona.edu/wyak_workshop for more information. On-line registration is available now! Alyce Sadongei Program Coordinator, Sr. American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) University of Arizona P.O. Box 210069 Tucson, AZ 85721-0069 (520) 626-4145 (520) 621-8174 sadongei at email.arizona.edu COE-AILDI at email.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 21:23:19 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:19 -0700 Subject: 169 local languages likely to extinct: Researcher (fwd link) Message-ID: 169 local languages likely to extinct: Researcher The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 12/14/2011 2:00 PM India Only 10 percent of the nation’s local languages will survive by the end of the century, according to a researcher. Abdul Rachman Patji, the head of a social and cultural research center at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), said that up to 169 local languages would likely become extinct due to lack of use. Access full article below: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/12/14/169-local-languages-likely-extinct-researcher.html From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 21:33:07 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:33:07 -0700 Subject: Workshop Announcement In-Reply-To: <33E866B32BA06C4EABB901CDC64E65AA0A1315B0D6@VA3DIAXVS801.RED001.local> Message-ID: Greetings ILAT, Endangered Language teachers, please take note! The "Where are your keys?" workshop is creating a lot of excitement here at UofA. Be sure to put this on your calender and plan to attend. I am! Phil UofA On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Sadongei, Alyce - (sadongei) wrote: > February is a great time to be in Tucson…. Mark your calendars  Friday, > February 10 and Saturday, February 11, 2012 to attend an entirely hands-on, > experiential (not theoretical!) workshop to introduce and demonstrate a new > and unconventional method for language learning. Go to > http://aildi.arizona.edu/wyak_workshop for more information. On-line > registration is available now! > > > > > > > > Alyce Sadongei > > Program Coordinator, Sr. > > American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) > > University of Arizona > > P.O. Box 210069 > > Tucson, AZ 85721-0069 > > (520) 626-4145 > > (520) 621-8174 > > sadongei at email.arizona.edu > > COE-AILDI at email.arizona.edu > > From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 22:18:39 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:18:39 -0700 Subject: Salish Numbers Book Helps Kids Learn Native Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Salish Numbers Book Helps Kids Learn Native Language By ICTMN Staff December 14, 2011 USA Children aged 2 to 6 can now learn to count in nsəlxcin—the Colville-Okanagan Interior Salish Language spoken by Native American and First Nations peoples who live between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains in Washington and British Columbia, Canada. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/14/salish-numbers-book-helps-kids-learn-native-language-67610 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/14/salish-numbers-book-helps-kids-learn-native-language-67610#ixzz1gYAJTQNM From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 15 19:52:12 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:52:12 -0700 Subject: language apps Message-ID: Greetings ILAT folks, A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is asking the following question... "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? What are the names?" This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! Phil UofA From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Thu Dec 15 22:20:50 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:20:50 -0500 Subject: Personalized Holiday Radio Card for You! Message-ID: Have a great Christmas season http://www.live365.com/holidaycards/90xv3Wc5TMzbU ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU Fri Dec 16 03:01:35 2011 From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:01:35 -1000 Subject: TCLT7 Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: Aloha! By popular request, we are extending the 7th Technology & Chinese Language Teaching Conference (TCLT7) Call for Papers deadline to January 1, 2012 for all (regardless of region). Visit our website for detailed information, including invited speakers: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/TCLT7/call.html We hope you will consider submitting a proposal! Happy holidays, TCLT7 Organizing Committee ************************************************************************* N National Foreign Language Resource Center F University of Hawai'i L 1859 East-West Road, #106 R Honolulu HI 96822 C voice: (808) 956-9424, fax: (808) 956-5983 email: nflrc at hawaii.edu VISIT OUR WEBSITE! http://nflrc.hawaii.edu ************************************************************************* From gforger at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 16 18:01:05 2011 From: gforger at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Forger, Garry J - (gforger)) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:01:05 -0800 Subject: language apps In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Excuse me that I don't have extensive knowledge of this but thought this may be of interest. Many of you are probably familiar with Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/ web based system that lets you upload images and annotate with voice and text. So you can have language learners annotate in the language of their choice. This is now available as an app for the iPad. Not sure about android. I think only for iPad2 since it has the camera, but works nice and worth checking out. This is a generic language tool and of course not customized for a particular language. Garry Forger -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:52 PM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: [ILAT] language apps Greetings ILAT folks, A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is asking the following question... "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? What are the names?" This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! Phil UofA From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Fri Dec 16 20:20:42 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:20:42 -0500 Subject: Third World Canada Message-ID: What the hell can I say...if there is a God, may he always keep his arm on my shoulder and his hand over my mouth....I guess that's been the solution???? http://thirdworldcanada.ca/ ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mhermes at UMN.EDU Sat Dec 17 13:28:44 2011 From: mhermes at UMN.EDU (Mary Hermes) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:28:44 -0600 Subject: language apps In-Reply-To: <0156B3A1AF2A794DA76AA308F3FF3E6117F5E0F91D@VA3DIAXVS4E1.RED001.local> Message-ID: We (Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia) have been working on a mobile app for Ojibwe with Transparent Language, it will be out in January, and free. It is a nice looking electronic flashcard system with pronunciation practice etc. We are making it from content in our software (Ojibwemodaa) but just finished recording a very good Elder from Ft. Frances (Nancy Jones) to make lists that come from real conversations.. very interesting! I am pretty sure this process could be repeated for other nations/ tribes. In fact, the Menominee are doing the same things - we worked with them initially, they make their own content, and now going through Transparent to get the Moblie App released on Itunes and then distributed. ( I think they keep their's private though). The downside? It is still translation/ literacy based- it does have a place to put in short videos or images, instead of English translations- this is is our next step. So it could be just Ojibwe audio to image...but how do we get that kind of precision in images? "They are helping him" With a verb based language this seems to be the hurdle for a really effective App. Sorry to go on so long! Can you tell I have papers to grade??? Thanks for asking! Interested to see what others are doing too! So nice to skip the computer. Mary On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Forger, Garry J - (gforger) wrote: > Excuse me that I don't have extensive knowledge of this but thought this may be of interest. > > Many of you are probably familiar with Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/ web based system that lets you upload images and annotate with voice and text. So you can have language learners annotate in the language of their choice. > > This is now available as an app for the iPad. Not sure about android. I think only for iPad2 since it has the camera, but works nice and worth checking out. This is a generic language tool and of course not customized for a particular language. > > Garry Forger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:52 PM > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Subject: [ILAT] language apps > > Greetings ILAT folks, > > A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is asking the following question... > > "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? > What are the names?" > > This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. > Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) > > I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or > group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! > > Phil > UofA > From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Sat Dec 17 20:58:12 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:58:12 -0500 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines Message-ID: The 'civilized' world creates problems...the tribal/indigenous world applies solutions...what's the problem...imagine...light from a plastic bottle filled with water...no lighting system could be more, shall I say, brilliant. http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles-l ight-up-lives-in-the-philippines.html ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pacific Standard Time, mikinakn at SHAW.CA writes: The 'civilized' world creates problems...the tribal/indigenous world applies solutions...what's the problem...imagine...light from a plastic bottle filled with water...no lighting system could be more, shall I say, brilliant. _http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles- light-up-lives-in-the-philippines.html_ (http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles-light-up-lives-in-the-philippines.ht ml) ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Sat Dec 17 21:24:05 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:24:05 -0600 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: that is excellent...love indigenous techies! I'm still trying to figure how to get the pure flowing water from my spring to my garden (about a 1/4 mile away and on the other side of the creek!) Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, wrote: > ** > What inspired thinking! Thank you for passing this along. > Dorothy Martinez-K > > In a message dated 12/17/2011 12:58:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > mikinakn at SHAW.CA writes: > > The 'civilized' world creates problems...the tribal/indigenous world > applies solutions...what's the problem...imagine...light from a plastic > bottle filled with water...no lighting system could be more, shall I say, > brilliant. > > > http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles-light-up-lives-in-the-philippines.html > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jimrem at AOL.COM Sat Dec 17 21:27:50 2011 From: Jimrem at AOL.COM (Jimrem at AOL.COM) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:27:50 -0500 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines Message-ID: Might try a ramjet. Look here _http://www.ncollier.com/rams.html_ (http://www.ncollier.com/rams.html) In a message dated 12/17/2011 3:24:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, rzs at WILDBLUE.NET writes: I'm still trying to figure how to get the pure flowing water from my spring to my garden (about a 1/4 mile away and on the other side of the creek!) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rolland Nadjiwon Sent: 18 December 2011 07:37 To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: [ILAT] AboriginalPressSuperfeed Naw...it couldn't be a Christian of Jew...they're not like that, eh.... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/muslim-womans-body-found-in-hospi tal-morgue-covered-with-bacon-745706.html ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... _____ From: noreply+feedproxy at google.com [mailto:noreply+feedproxy at google.com] On Behalf Of AboriginalPressSuperfeed Sent: December-17-11 10:03 PM To: mikinakn at shaw.ca Subject: AboriginalPressSuperfeed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I already get > too much email.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto: > ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Rolland Nadjiwon > *Sent:* 18 December 2011 07:37 > *To:* ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > *Subject:* [ILAT] AboriginalPressSuperfeed**** > > ** ** > > Naw...it couldn't be a Christian of Jew...they're not like that, eh....*** > * > > **** > > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/muslim-womans-body-found-in-hospital-morgue-covered-with-bacon-745706.html > **** > > **** > > -------**** > > wahjeh**** > > rolland nadjiwon**** > > ___________________________________________**** > > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks...**** > > **** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* noreply+feedproxy at google.com [mailto:noreply+feedproxy at google.com] > *On Behalf Of *AboriginalPressSuperfeed > *Sent:* December-17-11 10:03 PM > *To:* mikinakn at shaw.ca > *Subject:* AboriginalPressSuperfeed**** > > **** > -- T. 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For any app, it will be necessary to evaluate its appropriatenes for specific language in question On Dec 16, 2011 8:00 AM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" wrote: > Greetings ILAT folks, > > A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is > asking the following question... > > "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? > What are the names?" > > This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a > kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. > Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) > > I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can > provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or > group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! > > Phil > UofA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I look forward to hearing from you. >  >Sincerely, >Maria Pina >  > >________________________________ > >From:Tuttle, Christine >Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:25 PM >To: Pina, Maria; Pawlowski, Jeanette >Subject: FW: Arizona tribal languages >  >Here’s a lead for Tribal Languages. >  >From:Tribal Libraries [mailto:TRIBALIB at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sandy Littletree >Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:50 AM >To: TRIBALIB at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU >Subject: Fwd: Arizona tribal languages >  >Maybe some of you on this list can help with this project? >-Sandy >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Adrienne Tsikewa >Date: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM >Subject: Arizona tribal languages >To: AILDI at listserv.arizona.edu > > >Hello, > >As part of an independent study, I am working with two other students to create a Google Earth map to feature revitalization efforts of Arizona's tribal languages. This map is to be posted on the University of Arizona Dept. of Linguistics website as well as the American Indian Language Development Institute website. > >I am requesting any information on language revitalization efforts from the following communities: > >-Ak-Chin Indian Community >-Cocopah >-Colorado River Indian Tribes >-Ft. McDowell Yavapai Nation >-Ft. Mojave >-Gila River Indian Community >-Havasupai >-Hopi >-Haulapai >-Kaibab Paiute >-Pascua Yaqui >-Quechan >-Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community >-San Carlos Apache >-San Juan Southern Paiute >-Tohono O'odham Nation >-Tonto Apache >-White Mountain Apache >-Yavapai Apache Nation >-Yavapai Prescott >-Navajo Nation > > >Please email me and/or Latoya Hinton with any relevant information to the following: > >tsikewa7 at email.arizona.edu > >llynnh at email.arizona.edu > > >Thank you, > > >-- >Adrienne Tsikewa                                                                       Latoya Hinton >Graduate Student                                                                       Graduate Student >NAMA Program                                                                          NAMA Program >Dept. of Linguistics at University of Arizona                                   Dept. of Linguistics at  University of Arizona >  -- Adrienne Tsikewa Graduate Student NAMA Program Dept. of Linguistics -- Adrienne Tsikewa Graduate Student NAMA Program Dept. of Linguistics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Tue Dec 20 00:17:46 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:17:46 -0600 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: thanks! yeah the Ram pump is amazing and its simple technology, really have been giving it thought. (actually very ideal for 3rd world countries too since its made of simple pipe fittings) I only have to find out(calculate?) the horizontal limitations of DISTANCE it can pump. -richard On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, wrote: > ** > Might try a ramjet. Look here > > http://www.ncollier.com/rams.html > > In a message dated 12/17/2011 3:24:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, > rzs at WILDBLUE.NET writes: > > I'm still trying to figure how to get the pure flowing water from my > spring to my garden (about a 1/4 mile away and on the other side of the > creek!) > > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From Melvin.Peltier at SAULTCOLLEGE.CA Tue Dec 20 15:48:04 2011 From: Melvin.Peltier at SAULTCOLLEGE.CA (Melvin Peltier) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:48:04 +0000 Subject: FW: [apsip-l] FW: Tim Speaks Ojibwe In-Reply-To: <6A70B0CC514B2E49A6708A768A973DFF2FBB14EC@MAILC11H.saultcollege.ca> Message-ID: Subject: FW: [apsip-l] FW: Tim Speaks Ojibwe Subject: Tim Speaks Ojibwe Here is a an awesome video of a young 15 year old NON-native teenager who learned to speak Ojibwe on his own. He has never visited "Indian Country". I must say, his accent/pronunciation were almost spot on. :) Enjoy! :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ZAYpZKRPE&feature=share [Confederation Logo] Lake of the Woods Campus 900 Golf Course Road Kenora, ON P9N 3X7 www.confederationc.on.ca Geraldine Kakeeway Support Services Officer ________________________________ email: gekakeew at confederationc.on.ca Phone: (807) 468-3121 ex 4905 Fax: (807) 468-3601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But this app is a great first push toward making language learning actually fun, and I think with some tinkering the English could be removed entirely! Best, Joe Henderer On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash < cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote: > Greetings ILAT folks, > > A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is > asking the following question... > > "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? > What are the names?" > > This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a > kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. > Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) > > I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can > provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or > group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! > > Phil > UofA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM Wed Dec 21 16:30:38 2011 From: bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM (BSantaMaria) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:30:38 -0700 Subject: language apps In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Further complicating learning of 'Athabaskan-related languages such as Navajo & Apache also include that they are tonal for some words (the same word can change meaning depending on use of tone in pronunciation), gender differences in semantics, verb classificatory system (choosing verb use depending on object classifications), whom one is speaking to also creates changes in verbs used, etc. B. SantaMaria On 12/20/11, Joseph Henderer wrote: > Yes there are some out there! > > A fun app that was just recently uploaded to include a quiz-style > assessment of the 50 or so words it teaches you is "*Navajo Toddler*," > available for free on the iTunes app store for ipad and iPhone, in HD. Yes, > you still have the literacy hurdle and you can't escape including english > titles for the learning section, but they've axed the english in the > assessment portion (entitled, "play") and it's quite addictive! > > I think one of the bigger hurdles toward proficiency in verbal > morphology-heavy languages is going to be tackling the joys of non-time > stable concepts that can't be said without using a big ol' verb. But this > app is a great first push toward making language learning actually fun, and > I think with some tinkering the English could be removed entirely! > > Best, > > Joe Henderer > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash < > cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote: > >> Greetings ILAT folks, >> >> A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is >> asking the following question... >> >> "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? >> What are the names?" >> >> This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a >> kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. >> Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) >> >> I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can >> provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or >> group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! >> >> Phil >> UofA >> > From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET Wed Dec 21 16:55:50 2011 From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:55:50 -0600 Subject: online game in Dakotah Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ztribur at UOREGON.EDU Thu Dec 22 04:53:08 2011 From: ztribur at UOREGON.EDU (Zoe A Tribur) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:53:08 -0500 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) In-Reply-To: <2863295DF4D14B009D98369DE79AD200@RolandHP> Message-ID: I recommend http://www.isuma.tv/ which mostly has videos in the languages of the Artic. --Zoe On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:25 -0500, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > Great sit Phillip...I couldn't stop watching...made be feel right > back home > with the people...lol. > > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology > [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash > Sent: December-14-11 12:43 AM > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Subject: Re: [ILAT] IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) > > URL > > IndigiTUBE > http://www.indigitube.com.au/ From ztribur at UOREGON.EDU Sun Dec 25 03:26:28 2011 From: ztribur at UOREGON.EDU (Zoe A Tribur) Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:26:28 -0500 Subject: Create a member channel at isuma.tv for uploading educational and historic media for indigenous communities In-Reply-To: <831f3.6fc161e5.3c2214d4@aol.com> Message-ID: http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/isumatv/diama-call-fro-submissions DIAMA stands for Digital the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archives. DIAMA is the organization behind isuma.tv, a sort of youtube for communities across the globe, although most of their members are in Canada. They are spreading out and interested in helping other communities digitize and upload media archives to the Internet. Regards, Zoe Tribur University of Oregon On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:41:56 -0500, Rrlapier at AOL.COM wrote: > Tim proves that anyone can learn any language. A person does not have > to be "Native" to speak a "Native" language. > > My daughter knows Latin, French, Arabic, English -- and Blackfeet! > > rosalyn > piegan institute, montana > > In a message dated 12/20/2011 8:48:18 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, > Melvin.Peltier at SAULTCOLLEGE.CA writes: > >> FW: [apsip-l] FW: Tim Speaks Ojibwe >> >> Tim Speaks Ojibwe >> >> Here is a an awesome video of a young 15 year old NON-native >> teenager who learned to speak Ojibwe on his own. He has never >> visited “Indian Country”. I must say, his accent/pronunciation >> were almost spot on. J >> >> Enjoy! J >> >> Lake of the Woods Campus >> >> 900 Golf Course Road >> Kenora, ON P9N 3X7 >> >> Support Services Officer >> >> ------------------------- >> >> email: >> >> Phone: (807) 468-3121 ex 4905 >> >> Fax: (807) 468-3601 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 27 05:37:44 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:37:44 -0700 Subject: Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011 (fwd link) Message-ID: Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011 By ICTMN Staff December 23, 2011 USA Even though statistics say Native American languages are endangered and the U.S. Census says there are less than half a million speakers of Native languages in the country, there were a number of advancements in language revitalization and preservation throughout the year, a sampling of those are noted here: Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/23/achievements-abound-for-native-american-languages-in-2011-68390 From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 27 18:02:25 2011 From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudy Troike) Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:02:25 -0700 Subject: Endangered sign languages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: As with the Plains Indian Sign Language, many sign languages around the world are endangered today, a point that has not received much attention in the (important) focus on disappearing spoken languages. I just received the following note from Sam Supalla, who directs the program in Deaf Education here at the University of Arizona. I thought that others on this list would be interested. * * * From what I understand in the European deaf communities, more and more deaf folks are able to use ASL like many people I encountered in Finland. They were quite fluent in ASL. I believe ASL is becoming the world signed language. This does not include the sad fact that ASL is replacing various signed languages in the Third World countries at present. Richard Meier of the University of Texas wrote a paper on that and he is worried that many signed languages are disappearing worldwide. I am afraid that this area of concern is not getting attention as much as it should be. * * * Rudy Rudy Troike University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG Thu Dec 29 01:18:36 2011 From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:18:36 -0800 Subject: Where Are Your Keys? Message-ID: Play a game-Learn a language. http://www.whereareyourkeys.org/index.html matêevanihich /Later André Cramblit, Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC) (http://www.ncidc.org) 707.445.8451 To subscribe to a blog of interest to Natives send go to: http://andrekaruk.posterous.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pastedGraphic.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 5582 bytes Desc: not available URL: From hardman at UFL.EDU Thu Dec 29 02:15:05 2011 From: hardman at UFL.EDU (Dr. MJ Hardman) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:15:05 -0500 Subject: Dimas and Jaqaru In-Reply-To: <636690E4-0071-4D11-95F5-02D8F30B24EE@ncidc.org> Message-ID: Dimas Bautista Iturrizaga, 93-year-old speaker of Jaqaru, just survived extremely high-risk surgery for liver cancer (in lieu of going home to die ‹ the expected result of such a diagnosis at his age). He survived, they say, because of his own strength and will to live and more than willingness to get up and walk -- with two tube poles going along. They released us late the 24th; the 25th was our first day home. The 26th he resumed work on the database, the source for the dictionary of his language, that he so wishes to complete before he dies. At 93 he still has work to do; he is still, as they say of elders who speak threatened languages, a library. MJ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU Thu Dec 29 03:09:08 2011 From: pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU (Patricia Kwachka) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:09:08 -0500 Subject: Dimas and Jaqaru In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Amazing. Tx for the news. I hope his recovery goes smoothly and completely. My best wishes for you, Dimas, and family in the coming year. Pat Kwachka On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Dr. MJ Hardman wrote: > Dimas Bautista Iturrizaga, 93-year-old speaker of Jaqaru, just survived > extremely high-risk surgery for liver cancer (in lieu of going home to die > — the expected result of such a diagnosis at his age). He survived, they > say, because of his own strength and will to live and more than willingness > to get up and walk -- with two tube poles going along. They released us > late the 24th; the 25th was our first day home. The 26th he resumed work > on the database, the source for the dictionary of his language, that he so > wishes to complete before he dies. At 93 he still has work to do; he is > still, as they say of elders who speak threatened languages, a library. MJ > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: There is a workshop on language documentation, CoLang, at the University of Kansas this summer: http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/ There are two weeks of classes (our esteemed moderator, Phil Cash Cash, will be one of the instructors), followed by an optional four week language practicum . CoLang 2012 Practicum languages are Tlingit, Amazigh (Berber), Uda, and Cherokee. The previous versions of this workshop (called InField, at Santa Barbara in 2008 and Eugene in 2010) were huge successes, and this one promises to be equally stellar. Doug Whalen DhW Basla Andolsun wrote .. > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:02:16 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:02:16 -0700 Subject: Book: First Nations deserve Official Languages protecton (fwd link) Message-ID: Book: First Nations deserve Official Languages protecton DATE: 29 DECEMBER 2011POSTED BY : EDITED BY JOHN STOKES Toward a Native-Canadian Equal Rights Amendment Paperback: 205 pages Publisher: The Agora Cosmopolitan Language: English ISBN-10: 1894934040 ISBN-13: 978-1894934046 Does Canada First Nations languages deserve the same protection as French and English? Toward a Native-Canadian Equal Rights Amendment could be the most innovative constitutional proposals in Canada since the initiative of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the early 1980's. Access full article below: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/review/2011/12/29/2465.html From cgenetti at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:03:24 2011 From: cgenetti at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU (Carol Genetti) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:03:24 -0800 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: How about Co-Lang (InField) in June-July which offers a range of courses relevant to documentation and revitalization. Here's the URL: . Happy New Year! Carol --On Friday, December 30, 2011 2:40 PM -0500 Basla Andolsun wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:04:07 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:04:07 -0700 Subject: Singing the National Anthem in their Own Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Singing the National Anthem in their Own Language Written by Eddie Avila Posted 28 December 2011 6:08 GMT Access full article below: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2011/12/27/singing-the-national-anthem-in-their-own-language/ From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:05:35 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:05:35 -0700 Subject: Saving Native American Languages (fwd link) Message-ID: Saving Native American Languages December 28, 2011 USA Hour 1: From the archives – What is lost when a language “dies”? We spent an hour in July with Colleen Fitzgerald, associate professor and chairperson of UT Arlington’s Department of Linguistics and TESOL and Mary Linn, an anthropologist at the University of Oklahoma and curator of Native American language at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. (media link available) Access full article below: http://www.kera.org/2011/12/28/saving-native-american-languages-2/ From delancey at UOREGON.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:06:18 2011 From: delancey at UOREGON.EDU (Scott C Delancey) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:06:18 -0800 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: There's always NILI (Northwest Indian Language Institute, http://pages.uoregon.edu/nwili/) in Oregon. This year it's July 9-27. Scott DeLancey Department of Linguistics University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403, USA delancey at uoregon.edu On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:40:00 -0500, Basla Andolsun wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new > year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know > of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion > school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 30 20:14:32 2011 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:32 -0700 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: Also include AILDI - http://aildi.arizona.edu/ and for those in Canada, CILLDI http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cilldi/ Glad you are doing this blog! S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Basla Andolsun < Basla.Andolsun at falmouthinstitute.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla > -- ********************************************************************************************** *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. * Research Coordinator, CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry University of Arizona Phone: (520) 626-8071 Fax: (520) 626-3313 Website: cercll.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 30 20:18:03 2011 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:18:03 -0700 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Some other conferences, including SILS 2012 , are listed on this page (thanks to Jon Rehyner) : http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Conf.html S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Susan Penfield wrote: > Also include AILDI - http://aildi.arizona.edu/ and for those in Canada, > CILLDI http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cilldi/ > > Glad you are doing this blog! > > S. > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Basla Andolsun < > Basla.Andolsun at falmouthinstitute.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First >> http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year >> stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of >> anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, >> Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my >> list so far. Anything else you would recommend? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Basla >> > > > > -- > > ********************************************************************************************** > *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. > * > Research Coordinator, > CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy > CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry > University of Arizona > Phone: (520) 626-8071 > Fax: (520) 626-3313 > Website: cercll.arizona.edu > > > > -- ********************************************************************************************** *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. * Research Coordinator, CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry University of Arizona Phone: (520) 626-8071 Fax: (520) 626-3313 Website: cercll.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM Fri Dec 30 20:50:15 2011 From: Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM (Basla Andolsun) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:50:15 -0500 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: Looks like there's some good stuff coming up. Thanks for all the good tips, everyone! Basla ________________________________ From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Penfield Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 3:18 PM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Re: [ILAT] Revitalization work in 2012? Some other conferences, including SILS 2012 , are listed on this page (thanks to Jon Rehyner) : http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Conf.html S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Susan Penfield wrote: Also include AILDI - http://aildi.arizona.edu/ and for those in Canada, CILLDI http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cilldi/ Glad you are doing this blog! S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Basla Andolsun wrote: Hi all, I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of anything interesting planned for 2012? 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URL: From mslinn at OU.EDU Fri Dec 30 23:15:36 2011 From: mslinn at OU.EDU (Mary Linn) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:15:36 -0600 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <6DE9112957B80F881A2C289A@[10.0.0.2]> Message-ID: It will be the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair at the Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma. It is April 2 for Pre-K through 5th grades, and April 3 for 6th through 12th grades. Then, on April 9th the American Indian Caucus of the Oklahoma State Legislature will honor the students and teachers who have participated in the Fair and are learning and teaching their languages. The students will perform and sing in the rotunda of the capitol during the afternoon. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Carol Genetti wrote: > How about Co-Lang (InField) in June-July which offers a range of courses relevant to documentation and revitalization. Here's the URL: . > > Happy New Year! > > Carol > > --On Friday, December 30, 2011 2:40 PM -0500 Basla Andolsun wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First >> http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year >> stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of >> anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, >> Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my >> list so far. Anything else you would recommend? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Basla From awebster at SIU.EDU Fri Dec 30 23:46:51 2011 From: awebster at SIU.EDU (Anthony Webster) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:46:51 -0600 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <9E7A496C-6D38-4864-AA7A-89C0672B7606@ou.edu> Message-ID: Diné Language Conference, January 27-28, 2012, San Juan College, Farmington, NM. best, akw On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Mary Linn wrote: > It will be the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma Native American Youth > Language Fair at the Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma. It is > April 2 for Pre-K through 5th grades, and April 3 for 6th through 12th > grades. Then, on April 9th the American Indian Caucus of the Oklahoma State > Legislature will honor the students and teachers who have participated in > the Fair and are learning and teaching their languages. The students will > perform and sing in the rotunda of the capitol during the afternoon. > > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Carol Genetti > wrote: > > > How about Co-Lang (InField) in June-July which offers a range of courses > relevant to documentation and revitalization. Here's the URL: < > http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/>. > > > > Happy New Year! > > > > Carol > > > > --On Friday, December 30, 2011 2:40 PM -0500 Basla Andolsun < > Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > >> http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > >> stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > >> anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > >> Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > >> list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Basla > -- Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology Native American Studies Minor MC 4502 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901 618-453-5019 Dream other dreams, and better! 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Access full article below: http://indigenoustweets.blogspot.com/2011/12/1000-languages-on-web.html From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Sat Dec 31 00:14:50 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:14:50 -0700 Subject: RFP: All Roads Film Project (fwd link) Message-ID: [image: PND Philanthropy News Digest - A service of the Foundation Center] Print • Close Window [image: Request For Proposal] Posted on January 8, 2008 Deadline: Quarterly National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed Grants for Indigenous Filmmakers The All Roads Film Projectis a National Geographic initiative created to provide an international platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture artists to share their cultures, stories, and perspectives through the power of film and photography. All Roads includes a film festival, photography program, and seed grant program. The All Roads Seed Grant Program funds film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers from all reaches of the globe. The program seeks filmmakers who bring their lives and communities to light through first-person storytelling. The grant program is open to indigenous and under-represented minority culture filmmakers, as well as filmmakers who can demonstrate that they have been designated by indigenous or minority communities to tell their story. Grants range up to a maximum of $10,000 each. Submission deadlines are quarterly on the 15th of each March, June, September, and December. Visit the program's Web site for complete guidelines and application procedures. *Contact:* *Link to Complete RFP * Access full article below: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=198900056 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From patricia.a.shaw at UBC.CA Sat Dec 31 07:24:09 2011 From: patricia.a.shaw at UBC.CA (Patricia A.Shaw) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:09 -0800 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: In response to the request for information about up-coming events related to language revitalization, please note: There is to be a special joint session entitled "From Language Documentation to Language Revitalization", co-sponsored by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) and the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP), at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) meetings to be held in Portland on January 5-6. [http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm] The theme of this special session is on the role of Linguistics in endangered language revitalization. While there has been a growing focus within the field of Linguistics on “best practice” methodologies for endangered language documentation, there are many challenges - for linguists, for educators, for indigenous community members - in how to move from the "documentation" (past or present) of a language which is no longer actively spoken within families and communities to its effective "revitalization". Our goal is to illustrate through six case studies - representing diverse languages, contexts, and approaches - how linguists can contribute to language reclamation initiatives, and of how these efforts can, in turn, contribute to documentary linguistic practice so that it can better serve endangered language revitalization. A fuller description of the session is attached (file = "JointSession_SSILA&LSA.pdf"), which includes abstracts for each of presentations. Opening this session at 7:30 pm on Thursday evening (January 5) is a screening of the award-winning documentary "We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân" which features the cultural and linguistic revival among the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. This is open to the public, so please spread the word! Thanks, Patricia Patricia A. Shaw, President Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Chair, First Nations Languages Program, UBC: http://fnlg.arts.ubc.ca On 2011-12-30, at 11:40 AM, Basla Andolsun wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. 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Also volunteering to teach a day a week Pre-school Turtle Tots (over 60 children) Still unfunded but doing what we can, the Wyandotte Nation here still has no language committee, but did buy a projector for our use in the school. The Wyandotte Nation is beginning to show an interest in working with a professional Iroquoian Linguist, specializing in "wandat". We are also revitalizing traditional songs using old recordings preserved on wax cylinder, and reviving piece by piece our ceremonies. tizhameh (thanks!) Richard Zane Smith (Wyandot) Wyandotte Oklahoma On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Patricia A.Shaw wrote: > In response to the request for information about up-coming events related > to language revitalization, please note: > > There is to be a special joint session entitled "From Language > Documentation to Language Revitalization", co-sponsored by the Society > for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) and the > Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP), at the > Linguistic Society of America (LSA) meetings to be held in Portland on > January 5-6. [http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm] > > The theme of this special session is on the role of Linguistics in > endangered language revitalization. While there has been a growing focus > within the field of Linguistics on “best practice” methodologies for endangered > language documentation, there are many challenges - for linguists, for > educators, for indigenous community members - in how to move from the > "documentation" (past or present) of a language which is no longer actively > spoken within families and communities to its effective "revitalization". > Our goal is to illustrate through six case studies - representing diverse > languages, contexts, and approaches - how linguists can contribute to > language reclamation initiatives, and of how these efforts can, in turn, > contribute to documentary linguistic practice so that it can better serve endangered > language revitalization. > > A fuller description of the session is attached (file = > "JointSession_SSILA&LSA.pdf"), which includes abstracts for each of > presentations. Opening this session at 7:30 pm on Thursday evening (January > 5) is a screening of the award-winning documentary "We Still Live Here - Âs > Nutayuneân" which features the cultural and linguistic revival among the > Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. This is open to the public, so > please spread the word! > > Thanks, > Patricia > > Patricia A. Shaw, President > Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) > Chair, First Nations Languages Program, UBC: http://fnlg.arts.ubc.ca > > > > > On 2011-12-30, at 11:40 AM, Basla Andolsun wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. 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Al Hunter From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 5 15:28:00 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:28:00 -0700 Subject: 3D animation helps preserve Indigenous history (fwd link) Message-ID: 3D animation helps preserve Indigenous history December 5th, 2011 A ground-breaking new venture between Monash University?s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Information Technology (IT) is striving to preserve the history of Australia?s Indigenous population. When the British flag was first raised in Sydney Cove 222 years ago there were 250 languages spoken by Indigenous Australians. Now, less than half remain. Through the use of state-of-the-art 3D animation technology, researchers are working to recreate the dreamtime stories of the Yanyuwa people, located on the South-West coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Currently, only a handful of elders are fluent in the language ? the last custodians of ancient songs, stories and customs bound up in the vocabulary. Access full article below: http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/84525423/3d-animation-helps-preserve-indigenous-history.html From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 5 15:31:06 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:31:06 -0700 Subject: Indigenous dictionary released on Straddie (fwd link) Message-ID: Indigenous dictionary released on Straddie JUDITH KERR 05 Dec, 2011 12:00 AM Queensland NORTH Stradbroke Island has its own indigenous dictionary, called the Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-in-Council Jandai Language Dictionary. The 126-page hard cover book, compiled by The Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-in-Council and the Straddie Sand Mining Community Fund, was launched in Dunwich last month. Access full article below: http://www.baysidebulletin.com.au/news/local/news/general/indigenous-dictionary-released-on-straddie/2381766.aspx From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Mon Dec 5 21:55:19 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 16:55:19 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... Message-ID: No comment...the video says it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU Mon Dec 5 23:43:55 2011 From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:43:55 -1000 Subject: FINAL REMINDER: TCLT7 Call for Proposals Deadline Message-ID: Aloha! Just a final reminder - the Call for Proposals deadline for the 7th Technology & Chinese Language Teaching (TCLT7) Conference is December 15, 2011 for North American proposal submitters and January 1, 2012 for non-North American proposal submitters. For more details, visit our website at: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/TCLT7/call.html If you are a Chinese language educator or scholar with an abiding interest in technology, we hope you will consider submitting a paper proposal and coming for the conference in Honolulu, Hawaii in May of next year. 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Paula ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > No comment...the video says it.... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded > > &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > From richard.littauer at GMAIL.COM Tue Dec 6 08:36:40 2011 From: richard.littauer at GMAIL.COM (Richard Littauer) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:36:40 +0000 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: <20111205232031.D9YI1.239892.imail@fed1rmwml114> Message-ID: This video isn't available in Germany; any chance someone can give me a summary of the message? Thanks, Richard On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Paula Meyer wrote: > Rolland, you always have important things to share. I sent this on to me > colleagues teaching eighth grade who should be paying attention to the many > realizations and metamorphoses that are happening with their students, > instead of being consumed by meaningless testing and test scores. > Thanks. > Paula > ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > > No comment...the video says it.... > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded > > > > &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg > > > > ------- > > wahjeh > > rolland nadjiwon > > ___________________________________________ > > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > > > > -- Richard Littauer MSc Computational Linguistics University of Saarland http://www.rlittauer.com | @richlitt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From resa.bizzaro at IUP.EDU Tue Dec 6 16:43:15 2011 From: resa.bizzaro at IUP.EDU (Resa C Bizzaro) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: <20111205232031.D9YI1.239892.imail@fed1rmwml114> Message-ID: Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 20:20:31 -0800 Paula Meyer wrote: > Rolland, you always have important things to share. I sent this on >to me colleagues teaching eighth grade who should be paying attention >to the many realizations and metamorphoses that are happening with >their students, instead of being consumed by meaningless testing and >test scores. > Thanks. > Paula > ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: >> No comment...the video says it.... >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded >> >> &v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg >> >> ------- >> wahjeh >> rolland nadjiwon >> ___________________________________________ >> Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... >> >> >> From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Tue Dec 6 17:17:04 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:17:04 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yes, I was aware of the controversy. However, I thought the impact of the message was more important than the truth or falsity of the video. Being bullied is not something most young people want to talk about. Most bullying happens in silence and even fabricated stories to protect themselves amongst peers. There have been far too many young people committing suicide as the end product of bullying and those are only the ones we hear about. If not suicide, the damage is often demonstrated in the incredible increases in drug and alcohol addiction in youth and often in overdose deaths. Most of the messages and information passed on today is done so by actors...what is the truth or falsity in our world of everything being an advertisement commercial. We have allowed ourselves the deceptions of a bureaucratic culture in an age of illusion. We may need to wave even more flags. I realize this is not list for 'soap boxing' ...editorializing maybe... Resa, following the comments, to me, clearly indicated I would not want to be in close relation or proximity of some of those respondents...many of them were tantamount to bullying...amazing. ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Resa C Bizzaro Sent: December-06-11 11:43 AM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Re: [ILAT] What's going on.... Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa From pmeyer8 at COX.NET Tue Dec 6 18:15:09 2011 From: pmeyer8 at COX.NET (Paula Meyer) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:15:09 -0800 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Rolland, The complainers about "truth" put me in mind of those who attacked Rigoberta Menchu. Rigoberta may have collapsed several people into one and changed her relationship to some of them, but the overall message in her book of the oppression of her family and her people is absolutely true. There are many definitions of "truth." For example, there are chronicles taken verbatim from a particular incident, and there are personal histories that come from a person's perception of events. Both are true. In a way, the narrator's perceptions hold more "truth" or meaning than "objective" documentation. This issue comes up a lot when narratives of oppressed people are read or heard by the oppressors. Paula ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > Yes, I was aware of the controversy. However, I thought the impact of the > message was more important than the truth or falsity of the video. Being > bullied is not something most young people want to talk about. Most bullying > happens in silence and even fabricated stories to protect themselves amongst > peers. There have been far too many young people committing suicide as the > end product of bullying and those are only the ones we hear about. If not > suicide, the damage is often demonstrated in the incredible increases in > drug and alcohol addiction in youth and often in overdose deaths. Most of > the messages and information passed on today is done so by actors...what is > the truth or falsity in our world of everything being an advertisement > commercial. We have allowed ourselves the deceptions of a bureaucratic > culture in an age of illusion. We may need to wave even more flags. > I realize this is not list for 'soap boxing' ...editorializing maybe... > Resa, following the comments, to me, clearly indicated I would not want to > be in close relation or proximity of some of those respondents...many of > them were tantamount to bullying...amazing. > > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Resa C Bizzaro > Sent: December-06-11 11:43 AM > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Subject: Re: [ILAT] What's going on.... > > Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it > yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found > out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is > actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. > I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see > if the video was a hoax or not. > > Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to > be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through > my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation > programs in our public schools are not working. > > Resa From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 6 18:18:34 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:18:34 -0700 Subject: The Internet: A lifeboat for endangered languages? (fwd link) Message-ID: The Internet: A lifeboat for endangered languages? Published 30 November 2011 - Updated 05 December 2011 Although the English language continues to dominate the Internet, the rise of global economic powerhouses like China and Russia has seen a surge in what used to be considered second-tier languages, a Brussels conference heard last week. Meanwhile, the UN predicts that half of the world's 6,000 languages will become extinct by the end of the century. Access full article below: http://www.euractiv.com/culture/internet-lifeboat-endangered-languages-news-509285 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 6 18:20:53 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:20:53 -0700 Subject: Language may trump race for young kids (fwd link) Message-ID: Language may trump race for young kids Society & Culture - Posted by William Harms-Chicago on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 U. CHICAGO (US) ? Researchers have found that for younger white children, language can loom larger than race in defining a person?s identity. Access full article below: http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/language-may-trump-race-for-young-kids/ From hardman at UFL.EDU Tue Dec 6 19:26:50 2011 From: hardman at UFL.EDU (Dr. MJ Hardman) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:26:50 -0500 Subject: What's going on.... In-Reply-To: <20111206131509.ZC96E.244167.imail@fed1rmwml106> Message-ID: Indeed. I remember the attacks on Rigoberta Menchu, and they angered me so, for the very reasons you say. The reality of reprisal is always there; such reorganization is necessary and does not change the "truth". Even in teaching I have found, as I think I have said before on this list, that I can convince students better with a novel than with an ethnography. I use SF for this purpose. Truth is stranger than fiction? Or Fiction is truer than history. MJ On 12/6/11 1:15 PM, "Paula Meyer" wrote: > Rolland, > The complainers about "truth" put me in mind of those who attacked Rigoberta > Menchu. Rigoberta may have collapsed several people into one and changed her > relationship to some of them, but the overall message in her book of the > oppression of her family and her people is absolutely true. There are many > definitions of "truth." For example, there are chronicles taken verbatim from > a particular incident, and there are personal histories that come from a > person's perception of events. Both are true. In a way, the narrator's > perceptions hold more "truth" or meaning than "objective" documentation. This > issue comes up a lot when narratives of oppressed people are read or heard by > the oppressors. > Paula > ---- Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: >> Yes, I was aware of the controversy. However, I thought the impact of the >> message was more important than the truth or falsity of the video. Being >> bullied is not something most young people want to talk about. Most bullying >> happens in silence and even fabricated stories to protect themselves amongst >> peers. There have been far too many young people committing suicide as the >> end product of bullying and those are only the ones we hear about. If not >> suicide, the damage is often demonstrated in the incredible increases in >> drug and alcohol addiction in youth and often in overdose deaths. Most of >> the messages and information passed on today is done so by actors...what is >> the truth or falsity in our world of everything being an advertisement >> commercial. We have allowed ourselves the deceptions of a bureaucratic >> culture in an age of illusion. We may need to wave even more flags. >> I realize this is not list for 'soap boxing' ...editorializing maybe... >> Resa, following the comments, to me, clearly indicated I would not want to >> be in close relation or proximity of some of those respondents...many of >> them were tantamount to bullying...amazing. >> >> >> ------- >> wahjeh >> rolland nadjiwon >> ___________________________________________ >> Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] >> On Behalf Of Resa C Bizzaro >> Sent: December-06-11 11:43 AM >> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU >> Subject: Re: [ILAT] What's going on.... >> >> Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it >> yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found >> out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is >> actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. >> I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see >> if the video was a hoax or not. >> >> Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to >> be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through >> my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation >> programs in our public schools are not working. >> >> Resa > Dr. MJ Hardman Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology Department of Linguistics University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per? website: http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/ From saxon at UVIC.CA Tue Dec 6 22:09:21 2011 From: saxon at UVIC.CA (Leslie Saxon) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:09:21 -0800 Subject: FW: Master's Degree in Indigenous Language Revitalization- Application Deadline January 15th 2012 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: A new program offered jointly by Linguistics and Indigenous Education at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Though there is a focus on the local context of our province, this program is open to those from all other locations who are committed to Indigenous language revitalization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Good Afternoon, Apologies for cross posting. REMINDER ? January 15 application deadline is approaching for the new UVIC Graduate program in Indigenous language revitalization! As the application deadline approaches for the first intake of Graduate Students for the Master's Degree in Indigenous Language Revitalization we wanted to send out some more information about the program. Please find attached a full course list including descriptions of the courses, the application package and admissions/exceptional entry/application information. Nick Claxton, the Indigenous Education Advisor, is here to help students through the application process for this Program. 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I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Wed Dec 7 16:15:50 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:15:50 -0600 Subject: What's going on... In-Reply-To: <20111206222208.19nsi884wg8wcso8@www.email.arizona.edu> Message-ID: a real philosophical study thats been wrestled with for eons and worth pursuing still, the various cultural differences between given "truth" its relation to the newer concept - "fact" where they intersect, and when they seem to be such opposite forces,people feel like they must choose between the two. Love this kind of wrestling because it keeps stretching the cellophane covering our hardened definitions. "reality" is much more illusive and slippery than we often want. noun obsessed languages really do present their own term problems. if "everything" includes "*everything"* ...how could "everything" exclude "nothing?" Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rudy Troike wrote: > Howdy, > > I agree with Resa that the message is more important that the biographical > accuracy, and people who want to focus on the latter are trying to subvert > the message. But it was hard to look at Jonah's face and not believe that > this was real. The tears certainly don't seem manufactured. > > Rudy > > > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 > Subject: Re: What's going on.... > From: Resa C Bizzaro > > Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it > yesterday, > and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that > there > is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some > postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into > the > videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. > > Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us > to be > vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my > own > experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs > in > our public schools are not working. > > Resa > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 17:49:38 2011 From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudy Troike) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:49:38 -0700 Subject: What's going on... Message-ID: Richard, Thanks for this comment -- we're getting a bit off-topic for this list, but your remarks made me recall the instructions of the judge the last time I was on a jury. We were instructed to "determine the truth from the facts". The 'truth' was not given, but was to be determined on the basis of the 'facts'. That's a quite different orientation, but interesting nonetheless. Rudy Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:15:50 -0600 Subject: Re: What's going on... From: Richard Zane Smith a real philosophical study thats been wrestled with for eons and worth pursuing still, the various cultural differences between given "truth" its relation to the newer concept - "fact" where they intersect, and when they seem to be such opposite forces,people feel like they must choose between the two. Love this kind of wrestling because it keeps stretching the cellophane covering our hardened definitions. "reality" is much more illusive and slippery than we often want. noun obsessed languages really do present their own term problems. if "everything" includes "everything" ...how could "everything" exclude "nothing?" Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rudy Troike wrote: Howdy, I agree with Resa that the message is more important that the biographical accuracy, and people who want to focus on the latter are trying to subvert the message. But it was hard to look at Jonah's face and not believe that this was real. The tears certainly don't seem manufactured. Rudy Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 Subject: Re: What's going on.... From: Resa C Bizzaro Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it yesterday, and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that there is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into the videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us to be vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my own experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs in our public schools are not working. Resa From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:42:20 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:42:20 -0700 Subject: Fwd: nili: "Language Revitalization in the 21st Century" Conference Information and Call for Posters In-Reply-To: <4EE0F28D.2070307@uoregon.edu> Message-ID: FYI from the NILI listserv. Thanks NILI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Northwest Indian Language Institute Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM Hello All, Below is a link to Conference Information and Call for Posters for the CUNY Graduate Center and the International Centre for Language Revitalisation of the Auckland University of Technology for the "Language Revitalization in the 21st Century" symposium.? This is a two-day symposium to be held in New York City May 31-June 1, 2012. Keynot speakers will be Dr. Timoti K?retu, Maori, and Jesse Little Doe Baird, W?pan?ak. For more information, please visit: http://opencuny.org/languagerevitalizationinthe21stcentury/ -- Northwest Indian Language Institute University of Oregon 1629 Moss Street Eugene, Oregon 97403 Phone: (541) 346-0730 Fax: (541) 346-6086 Web: Northwest Indian Language Institute Social: Facebook From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:48:45 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:48:45 -0700 Subject: Step to honour our first people (fwd link) Message-ID: Step to honour our first people Michael Gordon December 9, 2011 AUS AUSTRALIANS will be asked to change the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and languages, prohibit racial discrimination and remove the last vestiges of racism in the nation's founding document under a blueprint approved yesterday. An expert panel appointed by the Gillard government has proposed that recognition of indigenous Australians be attached to a new power to legislate for the advancement of the original Australians, their languages and their culture. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/step-to-honour-our-first-people-20111208-1olhc.html#ixzz1fzCll6Vb From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:50:09 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:50:09 -0700 Subject: Assembly of First Nations Welcomes the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples Report on First Nations Education as Transformative and Progressive (fwd link) Message-ID: Assembly of First Nations Welcomes the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples Report on First Nations Education as Transformative and Progressive Canada NewsWire OTTAWA, Dec. 8, 2011 OTTAWA, Dec. 8, 2011 /CNW/ - Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo today welcomed the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples report titled: Reforming First Nations Education: From Crisis to Hope: "This is an important contribution by the Senate committee to our Call to Action on First Nations education. They have acknowledged that "fundamental, systemic change is required to replace an antiquated system of isolated and improperly resourced First Nations schools with the necessary organizational infrastructure needed for a 21st Century school system," National Chief Atleo added." We are pleased that the committee also noted "The time to act is now. We must seize on the growing momentum and consensus on the need for reform." Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/517053#ixzz1fzD5FuEq From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:51:54 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:51:54 -0700 Subject: NSU offers Cherokee language program (fwd link) Message-ID: NSU offers Cherokee language program 12/7/2011 8:14:24 AM By TESINA JACKSON Reporter USA TAHLEQUAH, Okla. ? In a cooperative effort between Northeastern State University and the Cherokee Nation, the Cherokee Education Degree Program allows students to major in the Cherokee language and give them the capability to teach how to speak, read and write Cherokee. ?This cultural understanding opens all sorts of doors to careers, not jobs,? said Dr. Leslie Hannah, director of the Cherokee studies and language programs at NSU. ?I make a distinct difference between jobs and careers. A job is something one does for a check. A career is something one does for life and these Cherokee language and culture courses change lives and create lifelong learners who in turn become life changers.? Access full article below: http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/5748 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 8 22:53:11 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:53:11 -0700 Subject: Backyard Initiative update: Harvesting learning from the Dakota Language Revitalization Citizen Health Action Team (fwd link) Message-ID: Backyard Initiative update: Harvesting learning from the Dakota Language Revitalization Citizen Health Action Team BY JANICE BARBEE AND MADELINE GARDNER, THE ALLEY December 06, 2011 USA Residents of seven neighborhoods in south Minneapolis (in the area around Allina Health System?s headquarters) have been implementing their ideas for health improvement for the past year with the support of Allina and the Cultural Wellness Center. The Dakota Language Revitalization Citizen Health Action Team (CHAT) was the first project to be approved by the Community Commission on Health and the members of this CHAT (made up primarily of Dakota community residents) have been going through a reflection or harvesting process to pull out their learning from their experiences and share it with the Commission, with other CHATs, and with the community. The Dakota Language Revitalization CHAT was formed out of the recognition that the health of a culture is essential to the health of a people and language is how culture and world view are transmitted. The Dakota language is at a crisis point right now; one CHAT member estimates there are only five fluent Dakota speakers left in the state of MN. The vision of the CHAT was that Dakota children learn their language at an early age, and their strategy was to start a day care for young children where they would be immersed in the Dakota language. Access full article below: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2011/12/06/backyard-initiative-update-harvesting-learning-dakota-language-revitalization-citize From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Fri Dec 9 15:46:00 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:46:00 -0600 Subject: What's going on... In-Reply-To: <20111208104938.264o4ocw0coks800@www.email.arizona.edu> Message-ID: Rudy that is interesting!... and maybe its the best we can do to come up with a universal app. Whoever has the highest stack of "facts" wins. No wonder there are so many poor in prison. Professional "fact stackers" are expensive to rent. off topic?...hmm well..maybe throw in something about the latest NDN XPod we'll be fine I enjoy this silly computer for its wizardry - but I'm still a die hard stone age techie After all, This IS the season to be careful selecting and cutting arrow shaft shoots...wild rose,hazel,and dogwood. -Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Rudy Troike wrote: > Richard, > > Thanks for this comment -- we're getting a bit off-topic for this list, > but your remarks made me recall the instructions of the judge the last > time I was on a jury. We were instructed to "determine the truth from the > facts". The 'truth' was not given, but was to be determined on the basis > of the 'facts'. That's a quite different orientation, but interesting > nonetheless. > > Rudy > > > Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:15:50 -0600 > Subject: Re: What's going on... > From: Richard Zane Smith > > a real philosophical study thats been wrestled with for eons and worth > pursuing > still, the various cultural differences between given "truth" its relation > to > the newer concept - "fact" where they intersect, and when they seem to be > such > opposite forces,people feel like they must choose between the two. > Love this kind of wrestling because it keeps stretching the cellophane > covering > our hardened definitions. "reality" is much more illusive and slippery > than we > often want. noun obsessed languages really do present their own term > problems. > > if "everything" includes "everything" ...how could "everything" exclude > "nothing?" > > Richard > Wyandotte Oklahoma > > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rudy Troike > wrote: > > Howdy, > > I agree with Resa that the message is more important that the > biographical > accuracy, and people who want to focus on the latter are trying to > subvert > the message. But it was hard to look at Jonah's face and not believe > that > this was real. The tears certainly don't seem manufactured. > > Rudy > > > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500 > Subject: Re: What's going on.... > From: Resa C Bizzaro > > Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it > yesterday, > and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that > there > is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some > postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into > the > videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not. > > Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us > to be > vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my > own > experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs > in > our public schools are not working. > > Resa > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 9 19:21:39 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:21:39 -0700 Subject: ILAT goes NYT... Message-ID: Greetings folks, ILAT got a nice shout out from the New York Times today! "An Internet discussion group, Indigenous Languages and Technology, is full of announcements for new software to build sound dictionaries and a project to collect tweets in Tok Pisin, a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea, or Pipil, an indigenous language of El Salvador." ~~~ Everyone Speaks Text Message By TINA ROSENBERG Published: December 9, 2011 When Ibrahima Traore takes his sons to a park in Montclair, N.J., he often sits on a bench and reads. He reads English, French and Arabic, but most of the time he reads N?Ko, a language few speakers of those languages would recognize. N?Ko is the standardized writing system for Mande languages, a family of closely related tongues ? among them Traore?s language of Mandinka, but also Jula, Bamana, Koyaga, Marka ? spoken, for the most part, in eight West African countries, by some 35 million people. N?Ko looks like a cross between Arabic and ancient Norse runes, written from right to left in a blocky script with the letters connected underneath. Traore types e-mail to his family on his laptop in N?Ko, works on his Web site in N?Ko, tweets in N?Ko on his iPhone and iPad and reads books and newspapers written in N?Ko to prepare for the N?Ko classes he teaches in the Bronx and for his appearances on an Internet radio program to discuss cultural issues around the use of N?Ko. Access full article below: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/everyone-speaks-text-message.html From Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM Fri Dec 9 19:24:31 2011 From: Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM (Basla Andolsun) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:24:31 -0500 Subject: ILAT goes NYT... In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: Congratulations, Phil! That's very exciting! Basla -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 2:22 PM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: [ILAT] ILAT goes NYT... Greetings folks, ILAT got a nice shout out from the New York Times today! "An Internet discussion group, Indigenous Languages and Technology, is full of announcements for new software to build sound dictionaries and a project to collect tweets in Tok Pisin, a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea, or Pipil, an indigenous language of El Salvador." ~~~ Everyone Speaks Text Message By TINA ROSENBERG Published: December 9, 2011 When Ibrahima Traore takes his sons to a park in Montclair, N.J., he often sits on a bench and reads. He reads English, French and Arabic, but most of the time he reads N'Ko, a language few speakers of those languages would recognize. N'Ko is the standardized writing system for Mande languages, a family of closely related tongues - among them Traore's language of Mandinka, but also Jula, Bamana, Koyaga, Marka - spoken, for the most part, in eight West African countries, by some 35 million people. N'Ko looks like a cross between Arabic and ancient Norse runes, written from right to left in a blocky script with the letters connected underneath. Traore types e-mail to his family on his laptop in N'Ko, works on his Web site in N'Ko, tweets in N'Ko on his iPhone and iPad and reads books and newspapers written in N'Ko to prepare for the N'Ko classes he teaches in the Bronx and for his appearances on an Internet radio program to discuss cultural issues around the use of N'Ko. Access full article below: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/everyone-speaks-text-message. html From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Sun Dec 11 00:03:48 2011 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:03:48 -0700 Subject: Nice article about Phil Cash Cash in the UA news! Message-ID: Hi all, Apologies if this was cross-posted, but our own Phil Cash Cash makes the new again! http://grad.arizona.edu/system/files/2.DRAFT_Phil%20Cash%20Cash_Photo-Story.pdf -- ********************************************************************************************** *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. * Research Coordinator, CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry University of Arizona Phone: (520) 626-8071 Fax: (520) 626-3313 Website: cercll.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Now if we can get our tribal members and families to somehow understand this..... ske:noh Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Susan Penfield wrote: > Hi all, > Apologies if this was cross-posted, but our own Phil Cash Cash makes the > new again! > > > > http://grad.arizona.edu/system/files/2.DRAFT_Phil%20Cash%20Cash_Photo-Story.pdf > -- > > ********************************************************************************************** > *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. > * > Research Coordinator, > CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy > CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry > University of Arizona > Phone: (520) 626-8071 > Fax: (520) 626-3313 > Website: cercll.arizona.edu > > > > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From huangc20 at UFL.EDU Mon Dec 12 02:00:27 2011 From: huangc20 at UFL.EDU (Huang,Chun) Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:00:27 -0500 Subject: Nice article about Phil Cash Cash in the UA news! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: thank you Suesan. thank you Phil. Jimmy On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:03:48 -0700, Susan Penfield wrote: > Hi all, > Apologies if this was cross-posted, but our own Phil Cash Cash makes the new again! > > http://grad.arizona.edu/system/files/2.DRAFT_Phil%20Cash%20Cash_Photo-Story.pdf [1] -- > > ********************************************************************************************** > SUSAN D. PENFIELD, PH.D. > > Research Coordinator, > CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy > CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry > University of Arizona > Phone: (520) 626-8071 > Fax: (520) 626-3313 > Website: cercll.arizona.edu [2] Links: ------ [1] http://grad.arizona.edu/system/files/2.DRAFT_Phil%20Cash%20Cash_Photo-Story.pdf [2] http://cercll.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 12 19:13:48 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:13:48 -0700 Subject: Nice article about Phil Cash Cash in the UA news! In-Reply-To: <9338782195550b87f5b1c607ea5b3fe4@ufl.edu> Message-ID: All you of are such swell people, qe'ciyew?yew? (thanks) for being a language advocate. Phil Cash Cash ILAT UofA From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 12 19:22:28 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:22:28 -0700 Subject: Fwd: article on multilingual internet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: fyi... The author gave his generous permission to post this link to ILAT. Thanks Nicholas. Phil UofA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicholas John Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:52 AM Subject: article on multilingual internet To: cashcash at u.arizona.edu Dear Phillip I'm writing to tell you about an article I've written on the multilingual internet. You and the members of the mailing list you run may find it interesting. A pre-publication draft is available here: http://www.sociothink.com/The%20Construction%20of%20the%20Multilingual%20Internet%20pre-final%20draft%20Nicholas%20John.pdf The article is titled "The Construction of the Multilingual Internet: Unicode, Hebrew and Globalization" I hope this is of some interest, Best Nicholas @nicholasajohn www.sociothink.com From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Dec 12 20:35:24 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:35:24 -0700 Subject: Arizona has most Indian language speakers (fwd link) Message-ID: Arizona has most Indian language speakers Published: Dec. 11, 2011 at 7:49 PM USA WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Apache County in Arizona has 37,000 speakers of an American Indian language, the highest concentration in the nation, the U.S. Census Bureau says. A report by the bureau's American FactFinder said although the majority of American Indian language speakers reside in areas where there are concentrated populations of American Indians or Alaskan indigenous peoples, only 5 percent of the residents of those areas speak a tribal language. Sixty-five percent of tribal language speakers live in just three states -- Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico. Nine counties within the three states contain half the nation's tribal language speakers, the report said. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/12/11/Arizona-has-most-Indian-language-speakers/UPI-82861323650994/#ixzz1gM3HQRxc From lang.support at GMAIL.COM Mon Dec 12 23:31:50 2011 From: lang.support at GMAIL.COM (Andrew Cunningham) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:31:50 +1100 Subject: Fwd: article on multilingual internet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Interesting article trying to address a complicated issue. as indicated ISO/IEC 8859-8 and SI 1311 (used for Hebrew) could be in visual or logical form, but what the article seems to neglect is that ISO/IEC 8859-6 and ASMO 708 (used for Arabic) is logical. Unicode would have needed a unified approach to directionality, esp since other scripts (Syriac, Thaana and N'ko) are also written right to left. Nor does it mention that one of the requirements of Unicode was backwards compatibility with existing national standards. This, combined with the lack of a visual encoding for Arabic ... and that some of the early Thaana and Syriac solutions tended to leverage off Arabic support ... Nor is there a discussion around the limitations on constraints on typesetting and typography caused by 8-bit encodings Nor the issues of supporting minority languages on the web using non-IANA registered encodings. Nor typesetting requirements of academic use of Hebrew not supported by ISO/IEC 8859-8 Nor the need, in some cases, to mix Hebrew (or Arabic script) text with text in other languages. Just some initial impressions. The reality is that we still have a long way to go in developing a multilingual web, but I suspect that encoding and directionality issues are the least of the problems. HTML and CSS is heavily influenced by Western European typographic and typesetting conventions. But that said some interesting work is occurring: improvements to bidirectional support in HTML5 and CSS3, Ruby, additions to text layout, lists and fonts in CSS3,etc. The Japanese Layout Task Force has published a fascinating document on the typesetting needs of Japanese on the web. Ideally other languages and scripts should receive similar attention. Andrew On 13 December 2011 06:22, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > fyi... > > The author gave his generous permission to post this link to ILAT. > Thanks Nicholas. > > Phil > UofA > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nicholas John > Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:52 AM > Subject: article on multilingual internet > To: cashcash at u.arizona.edu > > > Dear Phillip > > I'm writing to tell you about an article I've written on the > multilingual internet. You and the members of the mailing list you run > may find it interesting. > > A pre-publication draft is available here: > http://www.sociothink.com/The%20Construction%20of%20the%20Multilingual%20Internet%20pre-final%20draft%20Nicholas%20John.pdf > > The article is titled "The Construction of the Multilingual Internet: > Unicode, Hebrew and Globalization" > I hope this is of some interest, > > Best > Nicholas > > @nicholasajohn > www.sociothink.com -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andrewc at vicnet.net.au lang.support at gmail.com From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 13 19:22:02 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:22:02 -0700 Subject: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools (fwd link) Message-ID: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 14:05 By BEN GOAD, The Press-Enterprise washington USA WASHINGTON - Seeking to improve an education system he says is failing Indian country, a House lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's tribal schools. Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would provide increased Indian access to funding for at-risk youths and early childhood education, more adult literacy programs tailored for Native Americans and a scholarship program for tribal members studying to become teachers, among other provisions. The bill is called the Native Culture, Language and Access for Success in Schools -- or Native CLASS -- Act. The bill would provide tribal schools with greater control of the schools and curriculum, allowing tribal educators to incorporate their culture into classrooms on reservations. "It allows our tribal schools to use native languages as a primary language of instruction," Baca said. Access full article below: http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/legislation-aims-give-indians-more-control-over-their-schools From pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET Tue Dec 13 19:36:02 2011 From: pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET (Phil Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:36:02 -0700 Subject: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Can somebody please keep an eye on this legislation? It sounds awesome. Phil On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools > > Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 14:05 > By BEN GOAD, The Press-Enterprise washington > USA > > WASHINGTON - Seeking to improve an education system he says is failing > Indian country, a House lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's tribal > schools. > > Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would > provide increased Indian access to funding for at-risk youths and > early childhood education, more adult literacy programs tailored for > Native Americans and a scholarship program for tribal members studying > to become teachers, among other provisions. The bill is called the > Native Culture, Language and Access for Success in Schools -- or > Native CLASS -- Act. > > The bill would provide tribal schools with greater control of the > schools and curriculum, allowing tribal educators to incorporate their > culture into classrooms on reservations. > > "It allows our tribal schools to use native languages as a primary > language of instruction," Baca said. > > Access full article below: > http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/legislation-aims-give-indians-more-control-over-their-schools > From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 13 19:40:16 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:40:16 -0700 Subject: Elections officials grapple with Native American language rule (fwd link) Message-ID: Elections officials grapple with Native American language rule Requests for Yuma have some stumped Posted Dec 12, 2011, 10:10 am Uriel J. Garcia Cronkite News Service USA WASHINGTON ? Coconino County election officials have provided translators at the polls for Navajo speakers. They have done the same for Hopi voters. But Yuma has them stumped. ?There has never been a request for (Yuma),? said Coconino County Elections Administrator Patty Hansen. ?So now we?re trying to find someone who can speak that language.? Coconino was one of three Arizona counties that were told by the federal government in October that they would have to add voting assistance in the obscure language, which previously had been required only of Yuma County. Access full article below: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/121211_elex_native_languages/elections-officials-grapple-with-native-american-language-rule/ From bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM Tue Dec 13 20:43:26 2011 From: bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM (BSantaMaria) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:43:26 -0700 Subject: Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The problem comes in when terminology-- which schools will be affected on those reservations that have more than one type of system--ours has tribal school, BIA (or fed. gov't) schools, mission, and public schools governed by AZ state school districts. The latter is the most problematic on our rez; their administrators for several years have not allowed for enough Apache lang/culture teaching for enough hours/week to make a difference for students. If this legislation is aimed at the public school system, and passes, then that is what I would consider cause for celebration. Bernadette A. SantaMaria White Mountain Apache-- On 12/13/11, Phil Cash Cash wrote: > Can somebody please keep an eye on this legislation? It sounds awesome. > > Phil > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > >> Legislation aims to give Indians more control over their schools >> >> Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 14:05 >> By BEN GOAD, The Press-Enterprise washington >> USA >> >> WASHINGTON - Seeking to improve an education system he says is failing >> Indian country, a House lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's tribal >> schools. >> >> Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would >> provide increased Indian access to funding for at-risk youths and >> early childhood education, more adult literacy programs tailored for >> Native Americans and a scholarship program for tribal members studying >> to become teachers, among other provisions. The bill is called the >> Native Culture, Language and Access for Success in Schools -- or >> Native CLASS -- Act. >> >> The bill would provide tribal schools with greater control of the >> schools and curriculum, allowing tribal educators to incorporate their >> culture into classrooms on reservations. >> >> "It allows our tribal schools to use native languages as a primary >> language of instruction," Baca said. >> >> Access full article below: >> http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/legislation-aims-give-indians-more-control-over-their-schools >> > From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU Wed Dec 14 03:15:23 2011 From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:15:23 -1000 Subject: Position: Language Learning Center Director, University of Hawaii at Manoa Message-ID: DIRECTOR, Language Learning Center (LLC), College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL), University of Hawai'i at Manoa (position #82463), full-time, 11-month tenure-track faculty position, rank S3, pending position clearance and availability of funds, to begin August 1, 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter. 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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 05:41:11 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:41:11 -0700 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) Message-ID: 14 December, 2011 2:22PM ACST IndigiTUBE an outback video star By Nadine Maloney (Field reporter) AUS Nevermind Youtube with it's billions of dollars and slick graphics, the video file sharing site that has everyone out bush in a buzz was created in Australia especially for videos made by Aboriginal people living in remote communities. The internet really does come in handy for many things, including how to waste a good chunk of your day watching videos. At the click of a mouse you can easily view clips from all over the world. But if you're an Indigenous Australian, where on the internet can you see videos from your own community and in your own language? An Alice Springs based community funded organisation, Indigenous Community Television, has created a website it says is the voice of remote Indigenous Australia. IndigiTUBE is a website only featuring content uploaded by Indigenous users. Access full article below: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/12/14/3391027.htm From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 05:43:20 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:43:20 -0700 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: URL IndigiTUBE http://www.indigitube.com.au/ On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote: > 14 December, 2011 2:22PM ACST > > IndigiTUBE an outback video star > > By Nadine Maloney (Field reporter) > AUS > > Nevermind Youtube with it's billions of dollars and slick graphics, > the video file sharing site that has everyone out bush in a buzz was > created in Australia especially for videos made by Aboriginal people > living in remote communities. > > The internet really does come in handy for many things, including how > to waste a good chunk of your day watching videos. > > At the click of a mouse you can easily view clips from all over the world. > > But if you're an Indigenous Australian, where on the internet can you > see videos from your own community and in your own language? > > An Alice Springs based community funded organisation, Indigenous > Community Television, has created a website it says is the voice of > remote Indigenous Australia. > > IndigiTUBE is a website only featuring content uploaded by Indigenous users. > > Access full article below: > http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/12/14/3391027.htm From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Wed Dec 14 06:51:25 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:25 -0500 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Great sit Phillip...I couldn't stop watching...made be feel right back home with the people...lol. ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash Sent: December-14-11 12:43 AM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Re: [ILAT] IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) URL IndigiTUBE http://www.indigitube.com.au/ From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 20:10:05 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:10:05 -0700 Subject: Navajo tops list of Native language speakers in US Message-ID: Navajo tops list of Native language speakers in US By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Published: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 - 10:52 am USA FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A northeastern Arizona county has the highest number of Native American language speakers in the country. The U.S. Census Bureau says Apache County in eastern Arizona has 37,000 such speakers. The county encompasses parts of the Navajo Nation, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation and Zuni Pueblo. Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/14/4122557/navajo-tops-list-of-native-language.html#ixzz1gXdqLNxm From sadongei at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 21:07:15 2011 From: sadongei at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Sadongei, Alyce - (sadongei)) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:07:15 -0800 Subject: Workshop Announcement Message-ID: February is a great time to be in Tucson.... Mark your calendars Friday, February 10 and Saturday, February 11, 2012 to attend an entirely hands-on, experiential (not theoretical!) workshop to introduce and demonstrate a new and unconventional method for language learning. Go to http://aildi.arizona.edu/wyak_workshop for more information. On-line registration is available now! Alyce Sadongei Program Coordinator, Sr. American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) University of Arizona P.O. Box 210069 Tucson, AZ 85721-0069 (520) 626-4145 (520) 621-8174 sadongei at email.arizona.edu COE-AILDI at email.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 21:23:19 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:19 -0700 Subject: 169 local languages likely to extinct: Researcher (fwd link) Message-ID: 169 local languages likely to extinct: Researcher The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 12/14/2011 2:00 PM India Only 10 percent of the nation?s local languages will survive by the end of the century, according to a researcher. Abdul Rachman Patji, the head of a social and cultural research center at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), said that up to 169 local languages would likely become extinct due to lack of use. Access full article below: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/12/14/169-local-languages-likely-extinct-researcher.html From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 21:33:07 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:33:07 -0700 Subject: Workshop Announcement In-Reply-To: <33E866B32BA06C4EABB901CDC64E65AA0A1315B0D6@VA3DIAXVS801.RED001.local> Message-ID: Greetings ILAT, Endangered Language teachers, please take note! The "Where are your keys?" workshop is creating a lot of excitement here at UofA. Be sure to put this on your calender and plan to attend. I am! Phil UofA On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Sadongei, Alyce - (sadongei) wrote: > February is a great time to be in Tucson?. Mark your calendars ?Friday, > February 10 and Saturday, February 11, 2012 to attend an entirely hands-on, > experiential (not theoretical!) workshop to introduce and demonstrate a new > and unconventional method for language learning. Go to > http://aildi.arizona.edu/wyak_workshop for more information. On-line > registration is available now! > > > > > > > > Alyce Sadongei > > Program Coordinator, Sr. > > American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) > > University of Arizona > > P.O. Box 210069 > > Tucson, AZ 85721-0069 > > (520) 626-4145 > > (520) 621-8174 > > sadongei at email.arizona.edu > > COE-AILDI at email.arizona.edu > > From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Dec 14 22:18:39 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:18:39 -0700 Subject: Salish Numbers Book Helps Kids Learn Native Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Salish Numbers Book Helps Kids Learn Native Language By ICTMN Staff December 14, 2011 USA Children aged 2 to 6 can now learn to count in ns?lxcin?the Colville-Okanagan Interior Salish Language spoken by Native American and First Nations peoples who live between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains in Washington and British Columbia, Canada. Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/14/salish-numbers-book-helps-kids-learn-native-language-67610 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/14/salish-numbers-book-helps-kids-learn-native-language-67610#ixzz1gYAJTQNM From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Dec 15 19:52:12 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:52:12 -0700 Subject: language apps Message-ID: Greetings ILAT folks, A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is asking the following question... "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? What are the names?" This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! Phil UofA From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Thu Dec 15 22:20:50 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:20:50 -0500 Subject: Personalized Holiday Radio Card for You! Message-ID: Have a great Christmas season http://www.live365.com/holidaycards/90xv3Wc5TMzbU ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU Fri Dec 16 03:01:35 2011 From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:01:35 -1000 Subject: TCLT7 Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: Aloha! By popular request, we are extending the 7th Technology & Chinese Language Teaching Conference (TCLT7) Call for Papers deadline to January 1, 2012 for all (regardless of region). Visit our website for detailed information, including invited speakers: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/TCLT7/call.html We hope you will consider submitting a proposal! 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This is now available as an app for the iPad. Not sure about android. I think only for iPad2 since it has the camera, but works nice and worth checking out. This is a generic language tool and of course not customized for a particular language. Garry Forger -----Original Message----- From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:52 PM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: [ILAT] language apps Greetings ILAT folks, A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is asking the following question... "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? What are the names?" This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! Phil UofA From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Fri Dec 16 20:20:42 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:20:42 -0500 Subject: Third World Canada Message-ID: What the hell can I say...if there is a God, may he always keep his arm on my shoulder and his hand over my mouth....I guess that's been the solution???? http://thirdworldcanada.ca/ ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mhermes at UMN.EDU Sat Dec 17 13:28:44 2011 From: mhermes at UMN.EDU (Mary Hermes) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:28:44 -0600 Subject: language apps In-Reply-To: <0156B3A1AF2A794DA76AA308F3FF3E6117F5E0F91D@VA3DIAXVS4E1.RED001.local> Message-ID: We (Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia) have been working on a mobile app for Ojibwe with Transparent Language, it will be out in January, and free. It is a nice looking electronic flashcard system with pronunciation practice etc. We are making it from content in our software (Ojibwemodaa) but just finished recording a very good Elder from Ft. Frances (Nancy Jones) to make lists that come from real conversations.. very interesting! I am pretty sure this process could be repeated for other nations/ tribes. In fact, the Menominee are doing the same things - we worked with them initially, they make their own content, and now going through Transparent to get the Moblie App released on Itunes and then distributed. ( I think they keep their's private though). The downside? It is still translation/ literacy based- it does have a place to put in short videos or images, instead of English translations- this is is our next step. So it could be just Ojibwe audio to image...but how do we get that kind of precision in images? "They are helping him" With a verb based language this seems to be the hurdle for a really effective App. Sorry to go on so long! Can you tell I have papers to grade??? Thanks for asking! Interested to see what others are doing too! So nice to skip the computer. Mary On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Forger, Garry J - (gforger) wrote: > Excuse me that I don't have extensive knowledge of this but thought this may be of interest. > > Many of you are probably familiar with Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/ web based system that lets you upload images and annotate with voice and text. So you can have language learners annotate in the language of their choice. > > This is now available as an app for the iPad. Not sure about android. I think only for iPad2 since it has the camera, but works nice and worth checking out. This is a generic language tool and of course not customized for a particular language. > > Garry Forger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:52 PM > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Subject: [ILAT] language apps > > Greetings ILAT folks, > > A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is asking the following question... > > "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? > What are the names?" > > This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. > Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) > > I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or > group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! > > Phil > UofA > From mikinakn at SHAW.CA Sat Dec 17 20:58:12 2011 From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:58:12 -0500 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines Message-ID: The 'civilized' world creates problems...the tribal/indigenous world applies solutions...what's the problem...imagine...light from a plastic bottle filled with water...no lighting system could be more, shall I say, brilliant. http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles-l ight-up-lives-in-the-philippines.html ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pacific Standard Time, mikinakn at SHAW.CA writes: The 'civilized' world creates problems...the tribal/indigenous world applies solutions...what's the problem...imagine...light from a plastic bottle filled with water...no lighting system could be more, shall I say, brilliant. _http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles- light-up-lives-in-the-philippines.html_ (http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles-light-up-lives-in-the-philippines.ht ml) ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Sat Dec 17 21:24:05 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:24:05 -0600 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: that is excellent...love indigenous techies! I'm still trying to figure how to get the pure flowing water from my spring to my garden (about a 1/4 mile away and on the other side of the creek!) Richard Wyandotte Oklahoma On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, wrote: > ** > What inspired thinking! Thank you for passing this along. > Dorothy Martinez-K > > In a message dated 12/17/2011 12:58:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > mikinakn at SHAW.CA writes: > > The 'civilized' world creates problems...the tribal/indigenous world > applies solutions...what's the problem...imagine...light from a plastic > bottle filled with water...no lighting system could be more, shall I say, > brilliant. > > > http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/soda-bottles-light-up-lives-in-the-philippines.html > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jimrem at AOL.COM Sat Dec 17 21:27:50 2011 From: Jimrem at AOL.COM (Jimrem at AOL.COM) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:27:50 -0500 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines Message-ID: Might try a ramjet. Look here _http://www.ncollier.com/rams.html_ (http://www.ncollier.com/rams.html) In a message dated 12/17/2011 3:24:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, rzs at WILDBLUE.NET writes: I'm still trying to figure how to get the pure flowing water from my spring to my garden (about a 1/4 mile away and on the other side of the creek!) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rolland Nadjiwon Sent: 18 December 2011 07:37 To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: [ILAT] AboriginalPressSuperfeed Naw...it couldn't be a Christian of Jew...they're not like that, eh.... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/muslim-womans-body-found-in-hospi tal-morgue-covered-with-bacon-745706.html ------- wahjeh rolland nadjiwon ___________________________________________ Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... _____ From: noreply+feedproxy at google.com [mailto:noreply+feedproxy at google.com] On Behalf Of AboriginalPressSuperfeed Sent: December-17-11 10:03 PM To: mikinakn at shaw.ca Subject: AboriginalPressSuperfeed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I already get > too much email.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto: > ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Rolland Nadjiwon > *Sent:* 18 December 2011 07:37 > *To:* ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > *Subject:* [ILAT] AboriginalPressSuperfeed**** > > ** ** > > Naw...it couldn't be a Christian of Jew...they're not like that, eh....*** > * > > **** > > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/muslim-womans-body-found-in-hospital-morgue-covered-with-bacon-745706.html > **** > > **** > > -------**** > > wahjeh**** > > rolland nadjiwon**** > > ___________________________________________**** > > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks...**** > > **** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* noreply+feedproxy at google.com [mailto:noreply+feedproxy at google.com] > *On Behalf Of *AboriginalPressSuperfeed > *Sent:* December-17-11 10:03 PM > *To:* mikinakn at shaw.ca > *Subject:* AboriginalPressSuperfeed**** > > **** > -- T. 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For any app, it will be necessary to evaluate its appropriatenes for specific language in question On Dec 16, 2011 8:00 AM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" wrote: > Greetings ILAT folks, > > A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is > asking the following question... > > "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? > What are the names?" > > This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a > kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. > Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) > > I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can > provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or > group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! > > Phil > UofA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I look forward to hearing from you. >? >Sincerely, >Maria Pina >? > >________________________________ > >From:Tuttle, Christine >Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:25 PM >To: Pina, Maria; Pawlowski, Jeanette >Subject: FW: Arizona tribal languages >? >Here?s a lead for Tribal Languages. >? >From:Tribal Libraries [mailto:TRIBALIB at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sandy Littletree >Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:50 AM >To: TRIBALIB at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU >Subject: Fwd: Arizona tribal languages >? >Maybe some of you on this list can help with this project? >-Sandy >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Adrienne Tsikewa >Date: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM >Subject: Arizona tribal languages >To: AILDI at listserv.arizona.edu > > >Hello, > >As part of an independent study, I am working with two other students to create a Google Earth map to feature revitalization efforts of Arizona's tribal languages. This map is to be posted on the University of Arizona Dept. of Linguistics website as well as the American Indian Language Development Institute website. > >I am requesting any information on language revitalization efforts from the following communities: > >-Ak-Chin Indian Community >-Cocopah >-Colorado River Indian Tribes >-Ft. McDowell Yavapai Nation >-Ft. Mojave >-Gila River Indian Community >-Havasupai >-Hopi >-Haulapai >-Kaibab Paiute >-Pascua Yaqui >-Quechan >-Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community >-San Carlos Apache >-San Juan Southern Paiute >-Tohono O'odham Nation >-Tonto Apache >-White Mountain Apache >-Yavapai Apache Nation >-Yavapai Prescott >-Navajo Nation > > >Please email me and/or Latoya Hinton with any relevant information to the following: > >tsikewa7 at email.arizona.edu > >llynnh at email.arizona.edu > > >Thank you, > > >-- >Adrienne Tsikewa???????????????????????????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Latoya Hinton >Graduate Student???????????????????????????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??? Graduate Student >NAMA Program???????????????????????????????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? NAMA Program >Dept. of Linguistics at University of Arizona ????????????????????????????????? Dept. of Linguistics at? University of Arizona >? -- Adrienne Tsikewa Graduate Student NAMA Program Dept. of Linguistics -- Adrienne Tsikewa Graduate Student NAMA Program Dept. of Linguistics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET Tue Dec 20 00:17:46 2011 From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:17:46 -0600 Subject: Soda Bottles Light Up Lives in the Philippines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: thanks! yeah the Ram pump is amazing and its simple technology, really have been giving it thought. (actually very ideal for 3rd world countries too since its made of simple pipe fittings) I only have to find out(calculate?) the horizontal limitations of DISTANCE it can pump. -richard On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, wrote: > ** > Might try a ramjet. Look here > > http://www.ncollier.com/rams.html > > In a message dated 12/17/2011 3:24:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, > rzs at WILDBLUE.NET writes: > > I'm still trying to figure how to get the pure flowing water from my > spring to my garden (about a 1/4 mile away and on the other side of the > creek!) > > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From Melvin.Peltier at SAULTCOLLEGE.CA Tue Dec 20 15:48:04 2011 From: Melvin.Peltier at SAULTCOLLEGE.CA (Melvin Peltier) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:48:04 +0000 Subject: FW: [apsip-l] FW: Tim Speaks Ojibwe In-Reply-To: <6A70B0CC514B2E49A6708A768A973DFF2FBB14EC@MAILC11H.saultcollege.ca> Message-ID: Subject: FW: [apsip-l] FW: Tim Speaks Ojibwe Subject: Tim Speaks Ojibwe Here is a an awesome video of a young 15 year old NON-native teenager who learned to speak Ojibwe on his own. He has never visited "Indian Country". I must say, his accent/pronunciation were almost spot on. :) Enjoy! :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ZAYpZKRPE&feature=share [Confederation Logo] Lake of the Woods Campus 900 Golf Course Road Kenora, ON P9N 3X7 www.confederationc.on.ca Geraldine Kakeeway Support Services Officer ________________________________ email: gekakeew at confederationc.on.ca Phone: (807) 468-3121 ex 4905 Fax: (807) 468-3601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But this app is a great first push toward making language learning actually fun, and I think with some tinkering the English could be removed entirely! Best, Joe Henderer On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash < cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote: > Greetings ILAT folks, > > A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is > asking the following question... > > "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? > What are the names?" > > This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a > kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. > Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) > > I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can > provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or > group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! > > Phil > UofA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM Wed Dec 21 16:30:38 2011 From: bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM (BSantaMaria) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:30:38 -0700 Subject: language apps In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Further complicating learning of 'Athabaskan-related languages such as Navajo & Apache also include that they are tonal for some words (the same word can change meaning depending on use of tone in pronunciation), gender differences in semantics, verb classificatory system (choosing verb use depending on object classifications), whom one is speaking to also creates changes in verbs used, etc. B. SantaMaria On 12/20/11, Joseph Henderer wrote: > Yes there are some out there! > > A fun app that was just recently uploaded to include a quiz-style > assessment of the 50 or so words it teaches you is "*Navajo Toddler*," > available for free on the iTunes app store for ipad and iPhone, in HD. Yes, > you still have the literacy hurdle and you can't escape including english > titles for the learning section, but they've axed the english in the > assessment portion (entitled, "play") and it's quite addictive! > > I think one of the bigger hurdles toward proficiency in verbal > morphology-heavy languages is going to be tackling the joys of non-time > stable concepts that can't be said without using a big ol' verb. But this > app is a great first push toward making language learning actually fun, and > I think with some tinkering the English could be removed entirely! > > Best, > > Joe Henderer > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash < > cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote: > >> Greetings ILAT folks, >> >> A tribal community language teacher made an inquiry today and is >> asking the following question... >> >> "Are there any language apps that can be used on Ipad 2 and Iphone? >> What are the names?" >> >> This would be a good time for experienced ILAT members to provide a >> kind of informal up-to-date review of what is currently being used. >> Too, the question can include Android users as well. :) >> >> I do wish to suggest that each response would be helpful if it can >> provide some insights on user experiences (either as an individual or >> group) and/or the language is it used for. Much thanks in advance! >> >> Phil >> UofA >> > From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET Wed Dec 21 16:55:50 2011 From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:55:50 -0600 Subject: online game in Dakotah Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ztribur at UOREGON.EDU Thu Dec 22 04:53:08 2011 From: ztribur at UOREGON.EDU (Zoe A Tribur) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:53:08 -0500 Subject: IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) In-Reply-To: <2863295DF4D14B009D98369DE79AD200@RolandHP> Message-ID: I recommend http://www.isuma.tv/ which mostly has videos in the languages of the Artic. --Zoe On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:25 -0500, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote: > Great sit Phillip...I couldn't stop watching...made be feel right > back home > with the people...lol. > > > ------- > wahjeh > rolland nadjiwon > ___________________________________________ > Thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted the pay checks... > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology > [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash > Sent: December-14-11 12:43 AM > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU > Subject: Re: [ILAT] IndigiTUBE an outback video star (fwd link) > > URL > > IndigiTUBE > http://www.indigitube.com.au/ From ztribur at UOREGON.EDU Sun Dec 25 03:26:28 2011 From: ztribur at UOREGON.EDU (Zoe A Tribur) Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:26:28 -0500 Subject: Create a member channel at isuma.tv for uploading educational and historic media for indigenous communities In-Reply-To: <831f3.6fc161e5.3c2214d4@aol.com> Message-ID: http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/isumatv/diama-call-fro-submissions DIAMA stands for Digital the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archives. DIAMA is the organization behind isuma.tv, a sort of youtube for communities across the globe, although most of their members are in Canada. They are spreading out and interested in helping other communities digitize and upload media archives to the Internet. Regards, Zoe Tribur University of Oregon On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:41:56 -0500, Rrlapier at AOL.COM wrote: > Tim proves that anyone can learn any language. A person does not have > to be "Native" to speak a "Native" language. > > My daughter knows Latin, French, Arabic, English -- and Blackfeet! > > rosalyn > piegan institute, montana > > In a message dated 12/20/2011 8:48:18 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, > Melvin.Peltier at SAULTCOLLEGE.CA writes: > >> FW: [apsip-l] FW: Tim Speaks Ojibwe >> >> Tim Speaks Ojibwe >> >> Here is a an awesome video of a young 15 year old NON-native >> teenager who learned to speak Ojibwe on his own. He has never >> visited ?Indian Country?. I must say, his accent/pronunciation >> were almost spot on. J >> >> Enjoy! J >> >> Lake of the Woods Campus >> >> 900 Golf Course Road >> Kenora, ON P9N 3X7 >> >> Support Services Officer >> >> ------------------------- >> >> email: >> >> Phone: (807) 468-3121 ex 4905 >> >> Fax: (807) 468-3601 From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 27 05:37:44 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:37:44 -0700 Subject: Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011 (fwd link) Message-ID: Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011 By ICTMN Staff December 23, 2011 USA Even though statistics say Native American languages are endangered and the U.S. Census says there are less than half a million speakers of Native languages in the country, there were a number of advancements in language revitalization and preservation throughout the year, a sampling of those are noted here: Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/23/achievements-abound-for-native-american-languages-in-2011-68390 From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Tue Dec 27 18:02:25 2011 From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudy Troike) Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:02:25 -0700 Subject: Endangered sign languages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: As with the Plains Indian Sign Language, many sign languages around the world are endangered today, a point that has not received much attention in the (important) focus on disappearing spoken languages. I just received the following note from Sam Supalla, who directs the program in Deaf Education here at the University of Arizona. I thought that others on this list would be interested. * * * From what I understand in the European deaf communities, more and more deaf folks are able to use ASL like many people I encountered in Finland. They were quite fluent in ASL. I believe ASL is becoming the world signed language. This does not include the sad fact that ASL is replacing various signed languages in the Third World countries at present. Richard Meier of the University of Texas wrote a paper on that and he is worried that many signed languages are disappearing worldwide. I am afraid that this area of concern is not getting attention as much as it should be. * * * Rudy Rudy Troike University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG Thu Dec 29 01:18:36 2011 From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:18:36 -0800 Subject: Where Are Your Keys? Message-ID: Play a game-Learn a language. http://www.whereareyourkeys.org/index.html mat?evanihich /Later Andr? Cramblit, Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC) (http://www.ncidc.org) 707.445.8451 To subscribe to a blog of interest to Natives send go to: http://andrekaruk.posterous.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pastedGraphic.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 5582 bytes Desc: not available URL: From hardman at UFL.EDU Thu Dec 29 02:15:05 2011 From: hardman at UFL.EDU (Dr. MJ Hardman) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:15:05 -0500 Subject: Dimas and Jaqaru In-Reply-To: <636690E4-0071-4D11-95F5-02D8F30B24EE@ncidc.org> Message-ID: Dimas Bautista Iturrizaga, 93-year-old speaker of Jaqaru, just survived extremely high-risk surgery for liver cancer (in lieu of going home to die ? the expected result of such a diagnosis at his age). He survived, they say, because of his own strength and will to live and more than willingness to get up and walk -- with two tube poles going along. They released us late the 24th; the 25th was our first day home. The 26th he resumed work on the database, the source for the dictionary of his language, that he so wishes to complete before he dies. At 93 he still has work to do; he is still, as they say of elders who speak threatened languages, a library. MJ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU Thu Dec 29 03:09:08 2011 From: pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU (Patricia Kwachka) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:09:08 -0500 Subject: Dimas and Jaqaru In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Amazing. Tx for the news. I hope his recovery goes smoothly and completely. My best wishes for you, Dimas, and family in the coming year. Pat Kwachka On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Dr. MJ Hardman wrote: > Dimas Bautista Iturrizaga, 93-year-old speaker of Jaqaru, just survived > extremely high-risk surgery for liver cancer (in lieu of going home to die > ? the expected result of such a diagnosis at his age). He survived, they > say, because of his own strength and will to live and more than willingness > to get up and walk -- with two tube poles going along. They released us > late the 24th; the 25th was our first day home. The 26th he resumed work > on the database, the source for the dictionary of his language, that he so > wishes to complete before he dies. At 93 he still has work to do; he is > still, as they say of elders who speak threatened languages, a library. MJ > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: There is a workshop on language documentation, CoLang, at the University of Kansas this summer: http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/ There are two weeks of classes (our esteemed moderator, Phil Cash Cash, will be one of the instructors), followed by an optional four week language practicum . CoLang 2012 Practicum languages are Tlingit, Amazigh (Berber), Uda, and Cherokee. The previous versions of this workshop (called InField, at Santa Barbara in 2008 and Eugene in 2010) were huge successes, and this one promises to be equally stellar. Doug Whalen DhW Basla Andolsun wrote .. > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:02:16 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:02:16 -0700 Subject: Book: First Nations deserve Official Languages protecton (fwd link) Message-ID: Book: First Nations deserve Official Languages protecton DATE: 29 DECEMBER 2011POSTED BY : EDITED BY JOHN STOKES Toward a Native-Canadian Equal Rights Amendment Paperback: 205 pages Publisher: The Agora Cosmopolitan Language: English ISBN-10: 1894934040 ISBN-13: 978-1894934046 Does Canada First Nations languages deserve the same protection as French and English? Toward a Native-Canadian Equal Rights Amendment could be the most innovative constitutional proposals in Canada since the initiative of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the early 1980's. Access full article below: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/review/2011/12/29/2465.html From cgenetti at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:03:24 2011 From: cgenetti at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU (Carol Genetti) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:03:24 -0800 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: How about Co-Lang (InField) in June-July which offers a range of courses relevant to documentation and revitalization. Here's the URL: . Happy New Year! Carol --On Friday, December 30, 2011 2:40 PM -0500 Basla Andolsun wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:04:07 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:04:07 -0700 Subject: Singing the National Anthem in their Own Language (fwd link) Message-ID: Singing the National Anthem in their Own Language Written by Eddie Avila Posted 28 December 2011 6:08 GMT Access full article below: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2011/12/27/singing-the-national-anthem-in-their-own-language/ From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:05:35 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:05:35 -0700 Subject: Saving Native American Languages (fwd link) Message-ID: Saving Native American Languages December 28, 2011 USA Hour 1: From the archives ? What is lost when a language ?dies?? We spent an hour in July with Colleen Fitzgerald, associate professor and chairperson of UT Arlington?s Department of Linguistics and TESOL and Mary Linn, an anthropologist at the University of Oklahoma and curator of Native American language at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. (media link available) Access full article below: http://www.kera.org/2011/12/28/saving-native-american-languages-2/ From delancey at UOREGON.EDU Fri Dec 30 20:06:18 2011 From: delancey at UOREGON.EDU (Scott C Delancey) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:06:18 -0800 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: There's always NILI (Northwest Indian Language Institute, http://pages.uoregon.edu/nwili/) in Oregon. This year it's July 9-27. Scott DeLancey Department of Linguistics University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403, USA delancey at uoregon.edu On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:40:00 -0500, Basla Andolsun wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new > year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know > of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion > school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 30 20:14:32 2011 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:32 -0700 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: Also include AILDI - http://aildi.arizona.edu/ and for those in Canada, CILLDI http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cilldi/ Glad you are doing this blog! S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Basla Andolsun < Basla.Andolsun at falmouthinstitute.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla > -- ********************************************************************************************** *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. * Research Coordinator, CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry University of Arizona Phone: (520) 626-8071 Fax: (520) 626-3313 Website: cercll.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 30 20:18:03 2011 From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:18:03 -0700 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Some other conferences, including SILS 2012 , are listed on this page (thanks to Jon Rehyner) : http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Conf.html S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Susan Penfield wrote: > Also include AILDI - http://aildi.arizona.edu/ and for those in Canada, > CILLDI http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cilldi/ > > Glad you are doing this blog! > > S. > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Basla Andolsun < > Basla.Andolsun at falmouthinstitute.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First >> http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year >> stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of >> anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, >> Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my >> list so far. Anything else you would recommend? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Basla >> > > > > -- > > ********************************************************************************************** > *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. > * > Research Coordinator, > CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy > CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry > University of Arizona > Phone: (520) 626-8071 > Fax: (520) 626-3313 > Website: cercll.arizona.edu > > > > -- ********************************************************************************************** *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. * Research Coordinator, CERCLL, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry University of Arizona Phone: (520) 626-8071 Fax: (520) 626-3313 Website: cercll.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM Fri Dec 30 20:50:15 2011 From: Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM (Basla Andolsun) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:50:15 -0500 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: Looks like there's some good stuff coming up. Thanks for all the good tips, everyone! Basla ________________________________ From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Penfield Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 3:18 PM To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Re: [ILAT] Revitalization work in 2012? Some other conferences, including SILS 2012 , are listed on this page (thanks to Jon Rehyner) : http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Conf.html S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Susan Penfield wrote: Also include AILDI - http://aildi.arizona.edu/ and for those in Canada, CILLDI http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cilldi/ Glad you are doing this blog! S. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Basla Andolsun wrote: Hi all, I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of anything interesting planned for 2012? 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URL: From mslinn at OU.EDU Fri Dec 30 23:15:36 2011 From: mslinn at OU.EDU (Mary Linn) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:15:36 -0600 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <6DE9112957B80F881A2C289A@[10.0.0.2]> Message-ID: It will be the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair at the Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma. It is April 2 for Pre-K through 5th grades, and April 3 for 6th through 12th grades. Then, on April 9th the American Indian Caucus of the Oklahoma State Legislature will honor the students and teachers who have participated in the Fair and are learning and teaching their languages. The students will perform and sing in the rotunda of the capitol during the afternoon. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Carol Genetti wrote: > How about Co-Lang (InField) in June-July which offers a range of courses relevant to documentation and revitalization. Here's the URL: . > > Happy New Year! > > Carol > > --On Friday, December 30, 2011 2:40 PM -0500 Basla Andolsun wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First >> http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year >> stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of >> anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, >> Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my >> list so far. Anything else you would recommend? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Basla From awebster at SIU.EDU Fri Dec 30 23:46:51 2011 From: awebster at SIU.EDU (Anthony Webster) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:46:51 -0600 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <9E7A496C-6D38-4864-AA7A-89C0672B7606@ou.edu> Message-ID: Din? Language Conference, January 27-28, 2012, San Juan College, Farmington, NM. best, akw On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Mary Linn wrote: > It will be the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma Native American Youth > Language Fair at the Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma. It is > April 2 for Pre-K through 5th grades, and April 3 for 6th through 12th > grades. Then, on April 9th the American Indian Caucus of the Oklahoma State > Legislature will honor the students and teachers who have participated in > the Fair and are learning and teaching their languages. The students will > perform and sing in the rotunda of the capitol during the afternoon. > > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Carol Genetti > wrote: > > > How about Co-Lang (InField) in June-July which offers a range of courses > relevant to documentation and revitalization. Here's the URL: < > http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/>. > > > > Happy New Year! > > > > Carol > > > > --On Friday, December 30, 2011 2:40 PM -0500 Basla Andolsun < > Basla.Andolsun at FALMOUTHINSTITUTE.COM> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > >> http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > >> stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > >> anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > >> Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > >> list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Basla > -- Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology Native American Studies Minor MC 4502 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901 618-453-5019 Dream other dreams, and better! 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Access full article below: http://indigenoustweets.blogspot.com/2011/12/1000-languages-on-web.html From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU Sat Dec 31 00:14:50 2011 From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:14:50 -0700 Subject: RFP: All Roads Film Project (fwd link) Message-ID: [image: PND Philanthropy News Digest - A service of the Foundation Center] Print ? Close Window [image: Request For Proposal] Posted on January 8, 2008 Deadline: Quarterly National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed Grants for Indigenous Filmmakers The All Roads Film Projectis a National Geographic initiative created to provide an international platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture artists to share their cultures, stories, and perspectives through the power of film and photography. All Roads includes a film festival, photography program, and seed grant program. The All Roads Seed Grant Program funds film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers from all reaches of the globe. The program seeks filmmakers who bring their lives and communities to light through first-person storytelling. The grant program is open to indigenous and under-represented minority culture filmmakers, as well as filmmakers who can demonstrate that they have been designated by indigenous or minority communities to tell their story. Grants range up to a maximum of $10,000 each. Submission deadlines are quarterly on the 15th of each March, June, September, and December. Visit the program's Web site for complete guidelines and application procedures. *Contact:* *Link to Complete RFP * Access full article below: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=198900056 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From patricia.a.shaw at UBC.CA Sat Dec 31 07:24:09 2011 From: patricia.a.shaw at UBC.CA (Patricia A.Shaw) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:09 -0800 Subject: Revitalization work in 2012? In-Reply-To: <1A4149BB70273940968DC8CD7E1CC698021AC1AC@NVASREXMB0014A.EXMST.LOCAL> Message-ID: In response to the request for information about up-coming events related to language revitalization, please note: There is to be a special joint session entitled "From Language Documentation to Language Revitalization", co-sponsored by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) and the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP), at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) meetings to be held in Portland on January 5-6. [http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm] The theme of this special session is on the role of Linguistics in endangered language revitalization. While there has been a growing focus within the field of Linguistics on ?best practice? methodologies for endangered language documentation, there are many challenges - for linguists, for educators, for indigenous community members - in how to move from the "documentation" (past or present) of a language which is no longer actively spoken within families and communities to its effective "revitalization". Our goal is to illustrate through six case studies - representing diverse languages, contexts, and approaches - how linguists can contribute to language reclamation initiatives, and of how these efforts can, in turn, contribute to documentary linguistic practice so that it can better serve endangered language revitalization. A fuller description of the session is attached (file = "JointSession_SSILA&LSA.pdf"), which includes abstracts for each of presentations. Opening this session at 7:30 pm on Thursday evening (January 5) is a screening of the award-winning documentary "We Still Live Here - ?s Nutayune?n" which features the cultural and linguistic revival among the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. This is open to the public, so please spread the word! Thanks, Patricia Patricia A. Shaw, President Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Chair, First Nations Languages Program, UBC: http://fnlg.arts.ubc.ca On 2011-12-30, at 11:40 AM, Basla Andolsun wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. 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Also volunteering to teach a day a week Pre-school Turtle Tots (over 60 children) Still unfunded but doing what we can, the Wyandotte Nation here still has no language committee, but did buy a projector for our use in the school. The Wyandotte Nation is beginning to show an interest in working with a professional Iroquoian Linguist, specializing in "wandat". We are also revitalizing traditional songs using old recordings preserved on wax cylinder, and reviving piece by piece our ceremonies. tizhameh (thanks!) Richard Zane Smith (Wyandot) Wyandotte Oklahoma On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Patricia A.Shaw wrote: > In response to the request for information about up-coming events related > to language revitalization, please note: > > There is to be a special joint session entitled "From Language > Documentation to Language Revitalization", co-sponsored by the Society > for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) and the > Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP), at the > Linguistic Society of America (LSA) meetings to be held in Portland on > January 5-6. [http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm] > > The theme of this special session is on the role of Linguistics in > endangered language revitalization. While there has been a growing focus > within the field of Linguistics on ?best practice? methodologies for endangered > language documentation, there are many challenges - for linguists, for > educators, for indigenous community members - in how to move from the > "documentation" (past or present) of a language which is no longer actively > spoken within families and communities to its effective "revitalization". > Our goal is to illustrate through six case studies - representing diverse > languages, contexts, and approaches - how linguists can contribute to > language reclamation initiatives, and of how these efforts can, in turn, > contribute to documentary linguistic practice so that it can better serve endangered > language revitalization. > > A fuller description of the session is attached (file = > "JointSession_SSILA&LSA.pdf"), which includes abstracts for each of > presentations. Opening this session at 7:30 pm on Thursday evening (January > 5) is a screening of the award-winning documentary "We Still Live Here - ?s > Nutayune?n" which features the cultural and linguistic revival among the > Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. This is open to the public, so > please spread the word! > > Thanks, > Patricia > > Patricia A. Shaw, President > Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) > Chair, First Nations Languages Program, UBC: http://fnlg.arts.ubc.ca > > > > > On 2011-12-30, at 11:40 AM, Basla Andolsun wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I'd like to do a blog post on Spoken First > http://falmouthinstitute.com/language/ about some of what the new year > stands to offer in terms of language revitalization. Does anyone know of > anything interesting planned for 2012? I have the Sauk immersion school, > Oklahoma Breath of Life workshop and Lushootseed Immersion Week on my > list so far. Anything else you would recommend? > > Thanks! > > Basla > > > > -- * nest over conquest, calm over competition, cohesion over coercion ** ** richardzanesmith.wordpress.com * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: