Lakota documentation project announcement

[Pamela Munro]

Wonderful! I don't know any suitable candidates, however. Pam

ROOD DAVID S wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>	I am recruiting.  Please see the announcement pasted below, and
>spread the word as far as you can: I would really like to see this project
>succeed.
>	Best,
>	David
>
>David S. Rood
>Dept. of Linguistics
>Univ. of Colorado
>295 UCB
>Boulder, CO 80309-0295
>USA
>rood at colorado.edu
>
>DO YOU SPEAK LAKOTA?
>
>WOULD YOU LIKE TO EARN AN M. A. DEGREE WHILE HELPING TO STRENGTHEN THE
>LANGUAGE?
>
>	The University of Colorado Department of Linguistics will offer
>full support to three Lakota speakers for three years each, starting in
>the Fall of 2007, to enable them to study for the Master of Arts in
>Linguistics and to undertake the video documentation of everyday Lakota
>conversation.  "Full support" means all tuition and fees plus a 50%
>Student Research Assistant appointment (which includes health insurance),
>usually enough to live on.   The  funding for this project is a grant from
>the National Science Foundation to Prof. David S. Rood.
>	Applicants must (1) be able to speak the Lakota language to some
>extent; (2) be qualified and willing to become graduate students at the
>University of Colorado; (3) be enthusiastic about helping to meet the need
>to document and perpetuate the Lakota language.
>	If you are interested in applying to be one of these three student
>researchers, please examine the general information about graduate studies
>in Linguistics available on the internet at:
>http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/
>	You will be a regularly enrolled student, taking graduate courses.
>In addition, you will have daily conversation sessions in Lakota with a
>fluent elder.  In the summers you will make videotapes of people holding
>conversations in Lakota which you will analyze and translate during the
>following year. You might finish your M.A. in two years, but whether you
>do or not, you will still have support for the third year.  The project
>will provide the equipment you need and pay your travel expenses as well
>as paying fees to those who participate in your videos.
>
>	You will receive academic help if you want it, and you will be put
>in touch with Native American social and support groups on campus.  We
>hope you will find a career supporting efforts to keep Lakota alive, but
>you do not need to promise that to be eligible for the program.
>
>	The application deadline is January 15, 2007.  Please contact
>Prof. Rood for any kind of questions or assistance with the application:
>
>			David S. Rood
>			295 UCB
>			Boulder, Colorado, 80305-0295
>			telephone 303-492-2747
>			email rood at colorado.edu
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