Online Database of Mandan, a Native American Language

FAIN: HB-257740-18

Valerian Three Irons
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (New Town, ND 58763-0490)

The collection of multimedia materials and creation of an open-access online archive of the Native American language Mandan.

This one-year research project will gather all extant video, audio and textual documentation of the Mandan language from a number of archives in the United States for the purpose of creating a comprehensive, online database, Mandan Community Archives, which will be a vital language resource freely accessible to the public. My work will also consist of creating a list of unrecorded words in Mandan to be added to the Mandan Community Archives.