Kweh Monty,<div><br></div><div>I'm an enrolled member of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, </div><div>not officially educated as a linguist,</div><div>but working at revitalization,language and culture,reintroduction in classrooms here </div>
<div>with the Wyandotte Nation (Oklahoma) and in the Wyandotte Ok. public school,</div><div>and I'd be glad to share anything i feel is working here.</div><div><br></div><div>Since you're Tuscarora we consider yours a sister language and I'd like to connect </div>
<div>with your efforts as well. we have the same language structure (iroquoian),and</div><div>sometimes very similar root/stems .</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">My own use of technology is still pretty darn basic.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">I'm also interested to hear <i>what's actually working</i> and what's just <b>cyber-fluff</b></div><div class="gmail_quote">that won't hold any lasting benefits towards a future goal of community fluency.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">So far i haven't been too impressed with actual language growth</div><div class="gmail_quote">using the many hi-tech tools.</div><div class="gmail_quote">There are all kinds of gadgets but nothing replaces actual class time,</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">and building long term relationships with kids of the community </div><div class="gmail_quote">where they see you at Longhouse and watch how you relate with elders. </div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I know we are entering a hi-tech-computer-generated-world</div><div class="gmail_quote">and sure ,there are cool tools...we use everyday...</div><div class="gmail_quote">
but i often wonder just how sustainable it will be in the long run.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Sohahiyoh</div><div class="gmail_quote">(Richard Zane Smith)</div><div class="gmail_quote">
Wyandotte, Oklahoma</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, monty hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhill06@simons-rock.edu">mhill06@simons-rock.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Chwe:'n everyone,</span><div>
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</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">I'm Montgomery Hill, a member of the Tuscarora tribe of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, and a student writing my undergrad thesis on 'The Use of Modern Technology in Language Revitalization Projects: Applications, Benefits and Concerns'. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">It is a cross-disciplinary study in Computer Science and Linguistics, exploring (as the tentative title describes) use of technology, and any sort of thoughts a given community and project members have about the use of various technologies (for example, web based dictionaries, television shows, learning software, and so on).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Basically, I'm looking for people from other Indigenous Language Communities to share a short email dialogue with about their Language Revitalization Projects use of technology, and what sort of benefits or issues they have seen arise from that use!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Nya:weh for your time,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Montgomery Hill </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br>
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