UA, Google Creating Digital Maps to Help Preserve Cultural Heritage of Russian Community (fwd link)

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UA, Google Creating Digital Maps to Help Preserve Cultural Heritage of
Russian Community
By Yara Askar, University Communications | January 29, 2014UA
anthropologist Benedict Colombi is leading a public-private project to help
a Russian indigenous people preserve its language and cultural knowledge.

Indigenous communities from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula are dealing with
an issue of great concern – the possible impending loss of the Itelmen
language, which, in the community of 4,000, is only spoken by roughly one
dozen elders.

To ensure that younger generations of the Itelmen ethnic group retain their
heritage, University of Arizona anthropologist *Benedict Colombi* and*Tatiana
Degai*, an Itelmen student pursuing a doctorate in American Indian Studies
at the UA, have been working with the community in partnership with Google
Earth Outreach, a program supporting non-profit organizations raising
awareness of global issues, to create interactive and engaging digital maps
of locations that hold cultural and historic significance.

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