Project Grant 90NL0701

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will document traditional ways of communicating in Diné/Navajo and Lakota communities. The $449,877 award, spanning 3 years from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will create digital audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring language use and associated cultural knowledge in these two endangered language communities. The...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support The Language Conservancy, Inc. in developing the first comprehensive online Arizona Apache Dictionary. Over the one-year period from October 1, 2021 to September 1, 2022, the grant will fund retention of seven staff members and hiring of seven contract personnel from the Arizona Apache community. Key activities include...

The Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government will further develop its Tanamawaa.com website and digitize archival materials under a $143,968 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The IMLS Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program supports improving core library services for Native American tribes and Native Hawaiians. Under this award, the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island will add a new section to its existing Tanamawaa.com...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,179 in funding to the University of Arizona to advance the development of language technologies for endangered indigenous languages. The project aims to build capacity and infrastructure to support the creation of effective, durable, and appropriate language-related technologies by indigenous communities. Key efforts include establishing a network...

The Comanche Nation Language Department (CNLD) was awarded a $384,242.48 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to expand its existing Comanche language curriculum and develop the first ever online Comanche Level 1 course. CNLD will utilize archival audio and video recordings along with minimal new recordings to create five instructional units consisting of approximately...

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%...

This $1.25 million project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program will fund the San Jose State University Research Foundation's "Reading Nation Waterfall: Increasing Access to Literacy and Libraries for Native American Children and Families" project from September 2022 to March 2025. Working with the National Head Start Association and five Native American tribes, the Foundation will increase access to children's books and library...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the restoration and early-stage documentation of Chiricahua-Mescalero language recordings. Funded at $851,646 over three years from July 2022 to June 2025, the award will advance the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program's goal of ensuring long-term availability of primary humanities resources. Specifically, the Fort Sill Apache Tribe will restore archival-quality digital master...

This $900,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development (CFDA 15.032) program will support the Hoopa Valley Tribe's efforts to revitalize the Hupa language and connect families, community, and classrooms. Key activities include developing family-based language learning materials, creating a website to archive and share language resources, providing Hupa language teacher training and credentialing, and...

The Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, in partnership with the McDermitt Branch Library, received a $113,679 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) program. The grant funding will be used to create a range of digital services aimed at preserving the endangered Northern Paiute language of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. Key products and services to be delivered include: 1) developing a...