Documenting and Maintaining Native American Languages for the 21st Century: The Indiana University Model
Alternate Title
Revitalizing Indigenous Languages
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Author/Creator
Douglas R. Parks
Julia Kushner
Wallace Hooper
Francis Flavin
Delilah Yellow Bird
Selena Ditmar
Description
Five papers describe the Akira Language Project implemented at White Shield School in North Dakota, Nakoda Language Program at Fort Belknap College in Montana and the development of tools for computer language documentation at the American Indian Studies Research Institute.
Excerpt from Revitalizing Indigenous Languages edited by John Reyhner, Gina Cantoni, Robert N. St. Clair, and Evangeline Parsons.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1999, pp. [2]-16
Description
Discussion of the historical novel's treatment of the disruption of Salish belief systems and social / family structures due to the impact of Christianity after contact.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.