Books in Native Language

BSantaMaria bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 23 22:36:14 UTC 2013


Tammy:

Ahiyi'e (Thanks!) for response, will follow your policy.

Bernadette

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:

>  Bernadette,
>
> Happy to.  Please remember our policy:  Donate if you can, and send us two
> copies of the materials for our archives.
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
>
> Jan 23, 2013 02:12:57 PM, ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU wrote:
>
> Tammy:
>
> I'm with the Cultural Advisory Board & working on an ANA proposal for
> lang. prog; would you be able to send us the DVDs etc that you mentioned
> sending to Donna?
> We'll be developing Apache language material for local youth participants
> in a youth program, testing it out w/them and we would share any material
> that we develop from your contribution of materials.
>
> Would greatly appreciate anything you can provide. Contact & address info
> is below.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bernadette Adley-Santamaria
> Member, CAB, White Mt Apache Tribe
> P.O. Box 1110, Fort Apache AZ 85926
> Ph:  928-594-6826
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Tatiana Degai <tatiana.s.degai at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Tammy,
>> Will it be possible to send the programs to Russia?
>> They might be useful to work on language revitalization in Kamchatka.
>>
>>
>>   <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>
>>
>>
>> Тэңқ
>> Татьяна Дегай
>> кандидат в докоторанты Университета Аризоны, кафедра американских индейцев
>>
>> Teŋq
>> Tatiana Degai
>> PhD Candidate, University of Arizona, American Indian Studies
>>
>>  On Jan 17, 2013, at 5:33 AM, Tammy DeCoteau wrote:
>>
>>  Donna,
>>
>> We will mail you three DVDs which include the books, worksheets, bingo
>> games and other learning materials all of which were primarily created
>> using Microsoft publisher so they can be easily converted into any
>> language.  It's a matter of click on the text box, delete the Dakotah and
>> insert another language.
>>
>> Our AAIA official policy on sharing our materials is this:
>>
>> "We ask only that if you can contribute, please do so.  If you cannot,
>> that's okay too.  We also request that two copies of any materials created
>> be provided to the language program office so that one may be included in
>> our extensive archives at Princeton University Archives and will be
>> available for generations to come."
>>
>> These copies for our archives is vitally important to us because all
>> native language can probably be considered endangered now and even though
>> our focus is on revitalization we need to be thinking of preservation too.
>>
>> I will prepare a set of DVDs and send them out this week.  Thank you for
>> working to save our languages.
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>>
>> Jan 16, 2013 12:22:26 PM, ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU wrote:
>>
>>  I am definitely interested in learning more about the availability of
>> your books.  We have four languages here at SIR and this would definitely
>> give us a leg up on providing language learning opportunities to our
>> families.
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Donna
>>
>>
>>
>> D_clark at frontier.com
>>
>> [image: SIR]
>>
>> Donna Clark
>>
>> Language Program Coordinator
>>
>> Susanville Indian Rancheria
>>
>> 745 Joaquin Street
>>
>> Susanville, CA 96130
>>
>> Ph.530-257-5449
>>
>> Fax 530-251-5635
>>
>> D_clark at frontier.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:
>> ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Tammy DeCoteau
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:33 AM
>> *To:* ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>> *Subject:* [ILAT] Books in Native Language
>>
>>
>>
>> Mitakuyapi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Over the years we have offered several times for any tribe, school or
>> language program to take the books we have made and translate them into any
>> native language so they can be used for revitalizing our native languages.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am attaching a page of one of the books showing it in Dakotah, Lakota,
>> and as it was translated by the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Language
>> Revitalization Project.  We have over 120 children's books and I take this
>> opportunity to restate our offer.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>>
>>
>>
>
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