Workshop Award for Documentation of Northern Cheyenne Sacred Language

也许振兴夏安语的努力缺乏成功的部分原因在于非夏安人一直在使用非土著的方法领导这一行动。该项目支持为北夏延社区的两名年轻成员提供培训和讲习班参与。这一经验将提供语言文件方面的指导，并提供与其他土著语言学生和教师分享经验的机会。有了这个奖项，两个聪明、专注的本科生就有了一个独特的机会，他们在一个非常传统的夏安社区环境中长大，成为祖先和后代之间的知情桥梁。它们有可能成为记录、保存和振兴夏延语的关键。这个项目将以夏安族语言的语言文献和分析为基础。这些学生将发展技能和理解，以解决语言丧失和稳定的问题，特别注意到在使用社区内教授美洲原住民语言的教学方法所必需的资源。

Perhaps the lack of success in efforts to reinvigorate the Cheyenne language hinges partly on the fact that non-Cheyennes have been leading the charge, using non-indigenous approaches. This project supports training and workshop involvement for two young members of the Northern Cheyenne community. The experience will provide instruction in language documentation and an opportunity for sharing their experience with other indigenous language students and teachers. With this award, there is the unique opportunity for two bright, focused undergraduates, who have grown up in a very traditional Cheyenne community context, to be the informed bridge from the ancestors to those who are yet to come. They have the potential to be essential keys to the documentation, preservation and reinvigoration of the Cheyenne language.This project will build on the linguistic documentation and analysis of the Cheyenne language. These students will develop skills and understanding to address the problem of language loss and stabilization, noting especially the need for resources integral to ground the pedagogy for teaching Native American languages within the speaker community.