Sponsoring Attendant for AILDI Symposium

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这是一项小小的请求，以支持育空堡的原住民学者、语言教师及濒危格威津语使用者爱德华·亚历山大前往参加2009年6月29日至7月2日举行的美国印第安语言发展研究所（AILDI）第30届年度研讨会庆祝工作坊。亚历山大先生的参与是由北极社会科学和记录濒危语言项目主任建议的，这是促进亚历山大先生对格威奇语的兴趣和努力的一个极好的步骤。会议将协助亚历山大先生为育空平原和阿拉斯加东北部地区以及加拿大的戈维奇语制定一个计划。这次会议将使亚历山大先生接触到其他土著学者，他们正在研究濒危语言、文献实践和工具，以及他可以带回并应用于他所在地区村庄的教育项目。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This is a small request to support the travel of an indigenous scholar, language teacher and speaker of the endangered Gwich'in language, Edward Alexander of Fort Yukon, to participate in the American Indian Language Development Institute's (AILDI) 30th Annual Symposium Celebration Workshop, June 29-July 2, 2009. Mr. Alexander's participation was suggested by the Arctic Social Sciences and Documenting Endangered Languages Program Directors as an excellent step toward facilitating Mr. Alexander's interests in and efforts toward documenting the Gwich'in language. The conference will assist Mr. Alexander in developing a program for the Gwich'in language in the Yukon Flats and Northeastern regions of Alaska, as well as Canada. The conference will expose Mr. Alexander to other indigenous scholars working with their endangered languages, documentation practices and tools, as well as educational program that he can bring back and apply to the villages in his region.