Lakota documentation project announcement

[ROOD DAVID S]

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