SBP: Planning Grant: Collaborative Research: Strategies for Building Capacity for Linguistic Research on Dakota, an Endangered Native American Language

根据美国国家科学基金会国家科学与工程统计中心的数据，美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民学生的收入不到学士到博士学位的1%。增加获得学位数量的一种方法是通过部落学院和大学（TCU）与研究型大学合作。该项目将开展规划活动，以试行围绕语言保护建立的这种伙伴关系。美国国会于1990年通过的《美洲原住民语言法》承认了美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性。该项目将进行规划和评估，以确定三个部落学院的机构能力建设领域，这三个部落学院为一组拥有共同遗产语言的部落社区服务。更广泛的影响包括：使代表性不足的群体更多地参与语言科学，并确定语言科学和语言档案方面TCU网络的能力建设领域。南达科他州西塞顿-瓦佩顿部落学院（SWC）和弗吉尼亚大学（UVA）之间的合作将促进规划活动，为SWC服务的达科他州社区服务，以及南达科他州和内布拉斯加州的其他部落学院。达科塔语和它在苏语系中的姐妹语言都濒临灭绝。这种丧失的语言活力影响了社区的福祉，阻碍了语言研究，并代表着美国遗产的丧失。该项目将使弗吉尼亚州和南达科他州之间的互访项目人员从两个团队。这些交流将有助于确定需求和潜在的支持领域，以发展语言学教育和土著语言保护，存档和振兴的部落学院基础设施。该项目直接推动美洲原住民更广泛地参与高等教育和STEM研究，并将促进部落学院和相关社区的教学和研究。该项目还将支持在西南地区中心为当地社区感兴趣的成员举办的语言归档培训。

American Indian and Alaska Native students earn fewer than 1% of all degrees from the bachelor's to the doctorate, according to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics at NSF. One way to increase the number of degrees earned is by partnering tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) with research universities. This project will undertake planning activities to pilot just such a partnership built around language preservation. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, enacted into policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. This project will do planning and assessment to identify areas of institutional capacity building for three tribal colleges which serve a set of tribal communities which share a common heritage language. Broader impacts include the potential for greater participation of underrepresented groups in the language sciences and identification of areas for capacity building at a network of TCUs in the language sciences and linguistic archiving.This collaboration between Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal College (SWC) of South Dakota and University of Virginia (UVA) will foster planning activities that will serve Dakota communities served by SWC, as well as other tribal colleges in South Dakota and Nebraska. Dakota and its sister languages in the Siouan family are all endangered. This lost language vitality affects the well-being of the community, impedes linguistic research, and represents a loss of American heritage. The project will enable exchange visits between Virginia and South Dakota by project personnel from both teams. These exchanges will contribute to identification of needs and areas of potential support for the development of tribal college infrastructure for linguistics education and Native language preservation, archiving, and revitalization. The project directly advances the broader participation of Native Americans in higher education and STEM research and will promote teaching and research at the tribal college and associated community. The project will also support training in language archiving to be held at SWC for interested members of the local communities.