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

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）国家科学与工程统计中心（National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics）的数据显示，从学士到博士，美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民学生获得的学位不到所有学生的1%。增加获得学位数量的一种方法是部落学院和大学（tcu）与研究型大学合作。本项目将开展规划活动，以试点这种围绕语言保护建立的伙伴关系。美国国会于1990年通过了《美洲原住民语言法案》，将承认美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性制定为政策。该项目将为三所部落学院进行规划和评估，以确定机构能力建设领域，这些学院为拥有共同传统语言的部落社区提供服务。更广泛的影响包括有可能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的技术单位网络的能力建设领域。南达科他州塞西顿-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，为由SWC服务的达科他社区以及南达科他州和内布拉斯加州的其他部落学院服务。达科他语及其Siouan族的姊妹语都濒临灭绝。语言活力的丧失影响了社区的福祉，阻碍了语言学研究，并代表了美国传统的丧失。该项目将使双方团队的项目人员能够在弗吉尼亚州和南达科他州之间进行互访。这些交流将有助于确定需要和潜在支持的领域，以发展部落学院基础设施，以进行语言学教育和土著语言的保存、存档和振兴。该项目直接推动了印第安人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SWC为感兴趣的当地社区成员举办的语言存档培训。

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.