<div dir="ltr">There is a crowdfunding site available specifically for indigenous languages. <a href="http://www.thelanguagedocumentationcrowd.org/">http://www.thelanguagedocumentationcrowd.org/</a>. The last time I checked they were looking for projects to put up on the web site. <div>
<br></div><div>-Keisha Josephs</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:32 PM, jb spelqwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spelqwa@yahoo.com" target="_blank">spelqwa@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span>I love it!! I have been thinking about the same things. I think I will stop thinking about it and get to it. Thanks.<br></span></div><div><div class="h5"><div style="display:block"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">
<div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:09 PM, "<a href="mailto:mccreery@uvic.ca" target="_blank">mccreery@uvic.ca</a>" <<a href="mailto:mccreery@uvic.ca" target="_blank">mccreery@uvic.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
</font> </div> <div>Taanshi kiyawaaw ILAT,<br><br>For the past year I've been thinking about my dependency on various forms<br>of funding for doing documentation on Michif. In
cooperating with the<br>Metis Nation of BC I've applied for a few grants, but they haven't come<br>through. The problem is, when they don't come through so far it's always<br>been at the last moment, meaning I've had to cancel the work I was<br>
planning.<br><br>This year I've done enough work that I can fund myself, and likely will,<br>but at the same time, the work I'm doing is for my whole community. I<br>don't really like relying on government grants to do this work, because,<br>
well, because government and strings, and obstacles. I think that we need<br>a different model, or at least in part we need to switch things up.<br><br>That's why I've decided to give another technology a try this summer,<br>
crowd-sourced funding. It makes sense on a lot of levels. The first, and<br>most important, is that it directly gets a lot of people involved in the<br>work, personally invested not just for a few dollars, but
also<br>emotionally, as a community around the language. It makes me directly<br>accountable to my community, and them directly invested in what is being<br>done, something that bodes well for the future.<br><br>What am I getting at? Well, I've decided to do it. The following is my<br>
gofundme proposal to fund a couple months of travelling, recording, prep<br>work and transcribing.<br><br><a href="http://www.gofundme.com/63d2qk" target="_blank">http://www.gofundme.com/63d2qk</a><br><br>I'd ask you to donate if you're interested in Michif, and take note of my<br>
successes or failures for your own hopeful future use of this same tool<br>for your own programs or recording. I think for aspects of language work<br>that produce concrete results (like recording), this is a valid approach<br>
to cover costs.<br><br>Eekoshe eekwa,<br><br>Dale<br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>