Conference: North American Indian Sign Language Conference

虽然土著语言的复兴正在进行中，但如果没有对北美印第安手语（NAISL）的相应投资，这种复兴是不完整的。NAISL，也被称为印度手语或手语，由北美聋人和听力正常的土著人民使用的各种相互关联的手语组成。该奖项支持以社区为主导的NAISL会议，作为演讲、对话、实践研讨会和NAISL文档的场所。这种结构增强了会议的价值，因为它传播了现有的研究、资源和方法，同时也收集了有可能丢失的有价值的新NAISL数据。举办关于NAISL的会议有助于将注意力集中在它的重要性上，并促进社区的支持、工作关系，以及在NAISL的文档、保存和研究方面增加时间和精力的投资。这有助于刺激新的项目和研究，以及在社区中振兴NAISL的努力。出席会议的签名者被邀请为正在进行的由会议组织者指导的NAISL视频词典项目贡献签名。这是在实践研讨会的背景下进行的，由词典项目负责人记录签名者，为与会者提供如何在他们自己的社区进行手语文档的培训。该奖项是美国国家科学基金会和美国国家人文基金会为美国国家科学基金会动态语言基础设施- NEH记录濒危语言项目建立的资助伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

While a revival of spoken Indigenous languages is underway, this revival is incomplete without parallel investment in North American Indian Sign Language (NAISL). NAISL, also known as Indian Sign Language or Hand Talk, comprises interrelated varieties of sign language spoken by Deaf and hearing Indigenous Peoples of North America. This award supports a community-led conference on NAISL that serves as a venue for presentations, dialogues, practical workshops, and NAISL documentation. This structure enhances the value of the conference in that it disseminates existing research, resources, and methodologies while also collecting valuable new NAISL data that are at risk of being lost. Hosting a conference on NAISL helps to focus attention on its importance and fosters a community of support, working relationships, and increased investments of time and effort in the documentation, preservation, and study of NAISL. This helps to stimulate new projects and research as well as efforts to revitalize NAISL in communities. Signers in attendance are invited to contribute signs to an ongoing NAISL video dictionary project directed by the conference organizers. This takes place in the context of practical workshops where signers are recorded by the dictionary project leaders, providing attendees with training on how to conduct sign language documentation in their own communities. This award is made as part of a funding partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.