Native Plants and their Usage in an Indigenous Language Community

通过结合土著社区、语言学家、生物学家和记者的工作，该项目记录了土著语言，特别是与当地野生和栽培植物有关的语言，以及与其使用有关的传统和现代知识。该项目记录了（1）当地植物的名称、描述、用途和数码照片;（2）通过视频和叙述，记录了当地植物在烹饪、装饰、建筑、工具制作、仪式和医学方面的传统和现代用途;以及（3）目前由社区领导的生态友好型作物振兴工作，以修复殖民化对土地造成的损害。该项目的基础是土著人民的知识和集体利益的劳动和知识组织。它还培训了一些学生助理，为下一代语言研究人员的发展做出了贡献。土著社区的知识对于恢复地球的福祉至关重要。对当地植物的多代社区知识财富的有力记录丰富了对这一主题的现有理解，并继续记录作为这种知识库的未充分研究的语言。语言的文件有助于比较语言学工作，告知我们对土著语言和跨语言研究的理论理解。该项目还编制了一份全面的野外指南，并制作了一部录像记录片，供公众和学术界使用，介绍涉及植物知识和传统用途的做法。此外，该项目还制作了用于教学的短视频、以植物及其传统用途为基础的语言讲习班课程计划以及其他教学材料。该奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为NSF动态语言基础设施- NEH记录濒危语言计划建立的资助伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了NSF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。

By combining the work of Indigenous communities, linguists, biologists, and journalists, this project documents an Indigenous language, specifically as it relates to local wild and cultivated plants, and the traditional and modern knowledge related to their use. The project documents (1) local plant names, descriptions, uses, and digital photos; (2) traditional and modern uses of the local plants in cooking, decoration, construction, tool creation, rituals, and medicine through videos and narratives; and (3) the current community-led eco-friendly crop revitalization effort to repair damage stemming from the effects of colonization on the land. The project is grounded in the knowledge of the Indigenous people and the organization of labor and knowledge for collective benefit. It also trains a number of student assistants, contributing to the development of the next generation of language researchers. Indigenous communities' knowledge is crucial to restoring the wellbeing of the planet. Robust documentation of the wealth of multi-generational community knowledge of local plants enriches existing understanding of this topic, as well as continuing the documentation efforts an understudied language which serves as the reservoir for such knowledge. Documentation of the language facilitates comparative linguistic work, informing our theoretical understanding of Indigenous languages and cross-linguistic studies. This project also develops a comprehensive illustrated field guide and produces a video documentary for general public and academic use on practices involving plant knowledge and traditional uses. Furthermore, the project produces short videos for use in teaching, a lesson plan for language workshops based on the plants and their traditional use, and other pedagogical materials. 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.