Saving Endangered Languages in Latin America

[BSantaMaria]

Ms. Penfield:

Have a question for possible grant applic to DEL next year--we've been
working on Apache place-names for the Western Apache reservations in AZ for
a couple of years without any grant funding but now find a need since the
areas we are going to focus on are very large reservation areas & will need
additional resources, etc.

My question is if you think it would be feasible for us to submit a grant
application to conduct fieldwork on gathering place-names utilizing elder
consultants (will need stipends), some current staff (can we use part of
salaries as In-Kind contribution?), & additional staff as needed?  The main
goal is to revitalize & maintain the Apache place names for use by future
generations, for teaching tools in local classrooms, develop maps, etc. (in
a nutshell) although proposal not yet developed, just ideas for now.

I would deem this to be a project that would assist our tribes in
revitalizing our Apache languages, along with teaching the oral histories of
how place-names came to be, what some represent symbolically, etc. for our
young people to learn along with the names.

One of the consultants/advisors for several years is Dr. Keith Basso,
retired Anthropology professor, & the whole group would be an adivsory
committee that consists of the Western Apache groups:  White Mountain
Apache, San Carlos Apache, Yavapai-Apache Nation, Tonto Apache Nation.

We've already been in discussions on this for several meetings & would like
an idea if the DEL grant funding or other you might suggest that might be
more apt?, we'd like some feedback on whether we can plan on a submission
for next year's grant cycle.

Thanks for any info & I think I mentioned before that I'm a UA graduate &
working on language & cultural knowledge issues.

Bernadette Adley-SantaMaria, Cultural Advisory Board Member/Grant Writer
White Mountain Apache Tribe & Western Apache NAGPRA Working Group Member

PH:  (928) 594-6826

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Susan Penfield <susan.penfield at gmail.com>wrote:

> Apologies for cross-posts --
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> http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2011/08/25/effort-to-save-endangered-languages/
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> Good projects with support of the DEL program at NSF!
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> *Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
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> Research Coordinator,
> CERCLL, The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and
> Literacy
> University of Arizona
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