New home movies resurrect endangered Native American language (fwd link)

[Kevin Roach]

The software package and a free demo can be downloaded here:

http://www.grassrootsindigenousmultimedia.org/

Kevin Roach
kevin at grassrootsIM.org


On Nov 22, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

> New home movies resurrect endangered Native American language
> 
> Educator develops multimedia tools to share, preserve Ojibwe language.
> 
> By Science Nation Mon, Nov 21 2011 at 5:38 PM EST
> USA
> 
> University of Minnesota Duluth education professor Mary Hermes says
> saving an endangered language goes beyond just enriching the people
> who speak it.
> 
> "I think people have got to get beyond thinking it's just for the
> Ojibwe people, that we want to save their Ojibwe language. There's
> 10,000 years of human evolution and knowledge in that language," she
> says.
> 
> With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Hermes is
> combining the skills of native speakers with video technology to help
> others, young and old, learn the language in the most natural way.
> She's doing it by videotaping short movies of everyday situations,
> from going to a rummage sale to planting a garden to helping out a
> sick relative.
> 
> Access full article below:
> http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/new-home-movies-resurrect-endangered-native-american-language#
>