Project Grant 90XN0159

The United Houma Nation Inc., a tribal government organization, was awarded a $56,573,066 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) program. The project aims to enhance the short-, mid-, and long-term coastal resilience of the United Houma Nation in southern Louisiana through a multi-phased approach. Phase One and Two of the project involve upgrading community resilience hubs across six parishes,...

The Hoopa Valley Tribe received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) program. The Tribe will use grant funds to record and digitize materials related to the endangered Hoopa language variety Xoji-Hupa. Specifically, the Tribe will document the language, develop a digitized language curriculum, and continue work on a comprehensive dictionary with assistance from the last...

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to the Hoopa Valley Tribe to develop family-based Hupa language activities, create a website to archive language materials, support Hupa language teacher training and credentialing, and establish a Hupa language immersion program for children ages 18 months to 5 years. The project aims to create a new generation of Hupa language speakers and...

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) provides $432,912 to Yale University to document and preserve the endangered Um?nhon (Omaha) language spoken in Nebraska and Iowa. The primary goals are to capture contemporary connected speech of the approximately 27 remaining Um?nhon first-language speakers, and to digitize and make accessible the extensive existing language...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families awarded a $900,000 Project Grant under the Native American Programs (CFDA 93.612) to Euchee Language Projects, a Native American non-profit organization, to implement the "WE SHALL OVERCOME: GROWING YUCHI YOUTH CULTURE BEARERS" initiative. This three-year grant, running from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2027, will support community-driven projects to strengthen the Yuchi language and...

This Project Grant award of $449,877 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a 3-year project to document traditional ways of communicating in Diné/Navajo and Lakota communities. The goal is to address the imminent loss of linguistic and cultural knowledge by creating digital audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring language use and associated pragmatic knowledge. This...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $449,534 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to document endangered languages through training and capacity building in diaspora communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Producing richly annotated, multipurpose language documentation materials to serve as the foundation for grammatical studies; 2) Conducting targeted studies of...

The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Low Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians (CTCLUSI) received a $322,300 project grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to revitalize their three tribal languages - Miluk, Hanis, and Shayuushtha U Quuiich Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw - between June 2022 and December 2023. The funding will support oral tradition protocol development, digital transcription of language materials...

This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the refinement and scaling of the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence Translation Interface (DAILP TI) prototype at Northeastern University. The DAILP TI is a digital platform that leverages lexical datasets and resources to produce translated and annotated collections of indigenous language documents. The goals of...

The federal Project Grant award of $150,000.00 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) program (CFDA #45.311) will support the project "I Lea Ka Hula I Ka Hoopaa: Linguistic Ties of Mele and Hula" conducted by Kahuli LEO LE A, a minority-owned, Native Hawaiian non-profit organization. The project aims to preserve and perpetuate the linguistic connection and methodological framework between the...