Project Grant 90NB0025

The Iliamna Communities Teaching Culture through Native Languages Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education will provide $2.14 million to support teaching Alaska Native languages and cultures in the Igiugig Village region. Awarded on September 30, 2021 through the Alaska Native Educational Programs (CFDA 84.356) and held by the Igiugig Village Council, this three-year project until September 29, 2024 will recognize and address the unique educational needs of Alaska Native students....

This $104,311 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and tool development for the Yupik language of Alaska. Funded through the NSF's Polar Programs, the award supports a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Alaska Fairbanks from September 2022 through January 2023. Under the grant, the researchers will document and analyze critical structures of the Yupik language, digitize existing language materials, and build...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will use a $164,792 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to continue and expand an Umatilla language immersion preschool program and develop curriculum and teaching materials. The program aims to revitalize the critically endangered Umatilla language, of which only three fluent speakers remain. Services include a four-hour preschool with 50%...

The Kagman Elementary School Immersion Language Project received a $311,939 Formula Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2024 through the Promote the Survival and Continuing Vitality of Native American Languages program (CFDA 93.587). The CNMI Public School System will deliver language immersion and preservation services to promote the survival...

The Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to conduct the "Koo At Latouwx Has Naxsatee, Let Them Be Teachers" project from June 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The primary goal of the project is to increase the Tlingit language proficiency of 10 Tlingit language teachers through 116 total...

This $418,424 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program will fund the University of Oregon's project to collaboratively document an endangered indigenous language. The key products of this 3-year project include: 1) a crowdsourced digital quadrilingual dictionary created using the Living Dictionaries progressive web app, with...

The Metlakatla Indian Community, doing business as Metlakatla Power & Light, was awarded a $259,510 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308) to conduct a Sm'algyax language preservation project. The project aims to address the loss of fluent Sm'algyax speakers, a critically endangered language of the Ts'msyen (Tsimshian) people, by hiring a language mentor and student, acquiring technology...

The Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments, Inc. (dba Catg) received a $743,481 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families to support the "CH?ANJAA NAII GOOGWANDAK: ELDERS? STORIES" program. The three-year grant, awarded September 1, 2021 and set to conclude August 31, 2024, will promote the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages as part of the Administration for Native Americans' Promote...

This $455,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.223 - Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants) aims to address the endangerment of Alaska Native languages, particularly Inupiaq, through the Chukchi Campus Language Learning Workshop. The project will work with partnership organizations and UAF units to preserve and grow indigenous language knowledge, including developing an online Inupiaq pronunciation guide...

This $146,005 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research examining how family stress and cohesion relate to a young child's language environment and language acquisition. The project consists of two studies - a secondary analysis of existing data from 100 families with 3-5 year old children, and an intensive longitudinal study with natural home observations of 50 multigenerational families. By...