This $636,308 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) to Indiana University will support a 3-year effort to document the Lamkang language and its relationship to environmental changes due to relocation. The project will collect a corpus of Lamkang interviews, personal narratives, and focus group discussions, which will be transcribed, translated, and analyzed to understand how the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,999 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. This 2-year grant, which began on October 1, 2023, will support the "VSSVNOCHI ANUMPULI (ELDERS SPEAK): THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE IN CHOCTAW" project. This initiative will collect, transcribe, translate, and publish conversations in the Choctaw language from Choctaw elders...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $834,534 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to expand the Standing Rock Dakota/Lakota Language Archive and build local research capacity from October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025. The project will employ two language experts to produce additional recordings documenting the extremely threatened Western Dakota and Lakota dialects, which have...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $442,752 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to Swarthmore College. The 3-year project will develop online digital language resources for the Navajo/Diné (NAV) language of the Na-Dene language family. The project will employ community elders, veteran language teachers, linguists, and student interns to create a minimum of three language tools focusing on different...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $336,288 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. The grant funding will support the digitization and online publication of 2,400 rare and historical books from the library's Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Indian Linguistics Collection, which represents over 300 indigenous languages of North and Central America. This...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University. The grant will fund the "Refinement and Scaling of the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence Translation Interface (DAILP TI)" project. The project aims to transform the DAILP TI prototype into a shareable resource for translating and annotating indigenous language documents. Key objectives...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program totaling $295,076.98 supports the Northwest Indian Language Institute and National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages at the University of Oregon. The grant funds faculty and language experts to pivot in-person indigenous language learning and restoration activities toward online and on-demand trainings due to continued limitations...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $304,870 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, part of the University Libraries. This sixth phase of the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project will digitize and provide access to an estimated 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers dating from 1854-1963 for inclusion in the Chronicling...
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...