Fwd:Announcement: Breath of Life Language workshop (DC Area)

Thu Jan 20 13:47:30 UTC 2011

The following may be of interest to some...

Aya ceeki (greetings all)

The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages is
being hosted by the National Museum of the American Indian.

Please consider the following opportunity or pass on to someone who
you believe will be interested.  This is an excellent program and the
first time held in the east.  An excellent opportunity for language
learners, instructors, or community educators to spend time with the
linguistic archives in the District of Columbia area.  A wide range of
information and skills will be available at this workshop and an
opportunity to learn from others who are engaged in language
revitalization and the use of documentation for this work.

Kikwehsitoole,

Daryl

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Myaamia Project
Miami University
351 E. Spring St.
200 Bonham House
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-5648
(513) 529-9234 (fax)
www.myaamiaproject.org

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

COME BE A PARTICIPANT IN THE BREATH OF LIFE ARCHIVAL INSTITUTE FOR
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

Washington, DC, June 13-24, 2011

>>>Application Deadline: March 1, 2011<<<

Sponsors: Endangered Language Fund
National Anthropological Archives
National Museum of the American Indian
Library of Congress

We invite Native Americans and First Nations people who are involved
in the learning and revitalization of their languages to apply to come
to the Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages.
This two-week institute, funded by the Documenting Endangered
Languages program of the National Science Foundation, will be held in
Washington, D.C. this coming June.  At this hands-on set of workshops,
teams of participants (Native American/First Nations heritage language
learners, teachers and activists) paired with mentors (experts in
linguistics who help guide the participants' work) to explore the
language resources in archives in the District of Columbia area,
particularly the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Anthropological Archive.  Morning workshops on linguistics,
archival research and language revitalization will be held at the
National Museum of the American Indian. Visits to the archives will be
supplemented by lectures and workshops on linguistics, language
teaching and learning, and related topics. Participants and mentors
will be staying in the dorms at George Washington University, where
they can network and study together in the evenings. The institute
will pay for participants’ rooms and provide breakfasts and lunches
(dinner is on your own), and will pay for transportation to and from
Washington, D.C. (capped at $600). A registration fee of $500 is
requested for the two-week institute.

We will be accepting 40 applicants.  This is a great opportunity to
find and learn how to utilize archival materials as part of the
reclamation, learning and teaching of your heritage language, in the
company of other like-minded people.

BOL-DC participant application form:
http://www.jotform.com/breathoflife/3181113963

Further information and updates can be found on the Endangered
Language Fund website, at http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/BOL/.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

COME BE A MENTOR IN THE BREATH OF LIFE ARCHIVAL INSTITUTE FOR
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

Washington, DC, June 13-24, 2011

>>>Application Deadline: March 1, 2011<<<

Sponsors: Endangered Language Fund
National Anthropological Archives
National Museum of the American Indian
Library of Congress

We invite graduate students, faculty and other scholars who specialize
in Linguistics, and preferably in Native American or First Nations
languages, to apply to be mentors for the Breath of Life Archival
Institute for Indigenous Languages.  The institute will be held in
Washington, D.C. this coming June, and is funded by the Documenting
Endangered Languages program of the National Science Foundation.  At
this hands-on set of workshops, teams of participants (Native
American/First Nations heritage language learners, teachers and
activists) paired with mentors (experts in linguistics who help guide
the participants' work), will explore the language resources in
archives in the District of Columbia area, particularly the Library of
Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Anthropological
Archive. Morning workshops on linguistics, archival research and
language revitalization will be held at the National Museum of the
American Indian. Visits to the archives will be supplemented by
lectures and workshops on linguistics, language teaching and learning,
and related topics. Participants and mentors will be staying in the
dorms at George Washington University, where they can network and
study together in the evenings.

Mentor duties will primarily consist of working closely with your
assigned team of participants, helping them find materials in the
archives, helping them learn phonetics, grammatical analysis and other
linguistic skills, and helping them with homework assignments in the
evenings. Mentors will stay in the dorms at George Washington
University, along with participants. The institute will pay for your
rooms and will provide breakfasts and lunches (most of the time dinner
is on your own), and will pay for transportation to and from
Washington, D.C. (capped at $600). The registration fee which will be
charged to participants is waived for mentors.

Mentor application form: BOL-DC Mentor application form
http://www.jotform.com/breathoflife/3343200997

Further information and updates can be found at the Endangered
Language Fund website: http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/BOL/