Planning Grant: Collaborative Research: Increasing Montana's Tribal College Engagement in Language Documentation and Revitalization

规划补助金：合作研究：增加蒙大拿州部落学院对语言文献和振兴的参与

• 批准号: 1800617
• 负责人: Jeffrey Hooker
• 金额: $ 4.07万
• 依托单位: Chief Dull Knife Memorial College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-02-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1800617&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Collaborative; Research; Increasing

The state of Montana is home to nine Native American languages (Blackfoot, Montana Salish, Kutenai, Northern Cheyenne, Gros Ventre, Cree, Chippewa, Crow, and Assiniboine) and has seven Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). This project reinforces the mandate of the Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, which called for stakeholders, including Native American activists, to act together to "declare to preserve, protect and promote the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice and develop" these languages. The TCUs in Montana have been offering Native American language courses to encourage the sustainability of Native languages. This collaborative project between the University of Montana (UM) and one of the TCUs, Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC), aims to support the efforts of Montana TCUs by enriching language instructors' and activists' experience through an exchange of ideas and knowledge with instructors and training partners from UM, CDKC and the American Indian Language Institute (AILDI) of the University of Arizona. The proposed activities foster a positive relationship across institutions and will help identify current issues that may become the focus of future training workshops. The project's broader impacts include building the capacity of language documentation programs at Montana TCUs, enhancing STEM education through technology utilized in language documentation and education, and serving underrepresented populations who often have difficulty accessing training due to the remoteness of their locations. This collaborative project seeks to cultivate common ground for communication across institutional boundaries. It aims to promote the idea that an increased knowledge of linguistics, as a science, can benefit TCU programs related to indigenous language sustainability as well as the idea that linguistics can benefit from community input. A collaborative team, consisting of four language activists from indigenous communities and four non-indigenous linguists, will travel to TCUs in Montana to learn about the current efforts and future goals of their language activities. The collaborative team will then host meetings with selected participants from the Montana TCUs for further discussions. Results will be compiled from these activities feed into future documentation research and indigenous language education through workshops that will circulate the information back to indigenous communities. These project outcomes have the potential to implement indigenous ways of knowing into language documentation projects.

蒙大拿州拥有九种美洲原住民语言（布莱克福特语、蒙大拿萨利什语、库特奈语、北夏安语、格罗斯文特语、克里语、奇珀瓦语、克罗语和阿西尼博因语），并拥有七所部落学院和大学 (TCU)。该项目强化了 1990 年美国国会通过的《美洲原住民语言法案》的授权，该法案呼吁包括美洲原住民活动人士在内的利益相关者共同行动，“声明维护、保护和促进美洲原住民使用、实践和发展这些语言的权利和自由”。蒙大拿州的 TCU 一直在提供美洲原住民语言课程，以鼓励原住民语言的可持续性。蒙大拿大学 (UM) 与 TCU 之一酋长钝刀学院 (CDKC) 之间的合作项目旨在通过与 UM、CDKC 和亚利桑那大学美国印第安语言学院 (AILDI) 的教师和培训合作伙伴交流想法和知识，丰富语言教师和活动人士的经验，从而支持蒙大拿州 TCU 的努力。拟议的活动促进机构之间的积极关系，并将有助于确定可能成为未来培训研讨会重点的当前问题。该项目的更广泛影响包括建设蒙大拿州 TCU 语言文档项目的能力，通过语言文档和教育中使用的技术加强 STEM 教育，以及为因位置偏远而经常难以获得培训的弱势群体提供服务。该合作项目旨在为跨机构边界的沟通奠定共同基础。它的目的是促进这样一种理念，即增加语言学作为一门科学的知识，可以使 TCU 与土著语言可持续性相关的项目受益，以及语言学可以从社区投入中受益的理念。由四名来自土著社区的语言活动家和四名非土著语言学家组成的协作团队将前往蒙大拿州的 TCU，了解他们的语言活动当前的努力和未来的目标。然后，协作团队将与蒙大拿州 TCU 的选定参与者举行会议，进行进一步讨论。这些活动的结果将通过研讨会反馈给未来的文献研究和土著语言教育，并将信息传回土著社区。这些项目成果有可能将本土的认知方式应用到语言文献项目中。