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

根据NSF国家科学与工程统计中心的数据，美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民学生从学士到博士学位的收入不到所有学位的1%。增加学位数量的一种方法是与部落学院和大学(TCU)合作。该项目将开展规划活动，试行围绕语言保护建立的这种伙伴关系。美国国会1990年通过的《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纳入了政策。该项目将进行规划和评估，以确定三所部落学院的机构能力建设领域，这三所学院为一组使用共同传统语言的部落社区服务。更广泛的影响包括更多代表不足的群体更多地参与语言科学，以及确定TCU网络在语言科学和语言档案方面的能力建设领域。南达科他州的西塞顿-瓦赫佩顿部落学院(SWC)和弗吉尼亚大学(UVA)之间的合作将促进规划活动，这些活动将服务于由SWC服务的达科他州社区，以及南达科他州和内布拉斯加州的其他部落学院。达科他州及其苏语家族的姊妹语言都濒临灭绝。这种失去的语言活力影响了社区的福祉，阻碍了语言研究，也代表了美国传统的丧失。该项目将使弗吉尼亚州和南达科他州之间的项目人员能够互访。这些交流将有助于确定发展部落学院基础设施的需求和潜在支持领域，以促进语言学教育和土著语言的保存、存档和振兴。该项目直接促进了美洲原住民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。该项目还将支持将在西南大西洋中心为当地社区感兴趣的成员举办的语文存档培训。

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.