| AE-248016-16 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges | Sitting Bull College | Standing Rock Lakota/Dakota Language Project | 4/1/2016 - 12/31/2022 | $99,998.00 | Michael | | Moore | | | | Sitting Bull College | Fort Yates | ND | 58538-9721 | USA | 2016 | Languages, Other | Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges | Education Programs | 99998 | 0 | 62918.27 | 0 | A three-year project to record, preserve, and provide educational access to interviews with tribal elders who are fluent native speakers of the Lakota/Dakota language.
Sitting Bull College (SBC) proposes a three-year humanities initiative designed to record a dwindling collection of fluent speakers of the Lakota/Dakota language on the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota. These recordings of elders, who began their lives speaking the Lakota/Dakota language, are an invaluable part of efforts to reinvigorate the endangered Lakota/Dakota language. Fluent speakers, immersed in “Lakota/Dakota thought” speak differently and it is important to record this to create a “bridge” between a dwindling generation of fluent speakers and a new generation of young speakers who are learning Lakota/Dakota as a first language and will one day seek to draw on these resources. The project, guided by Sitting Bull College faculty and staff in cooperation with the speakers themselves, will create a vast well of primary source recordings in both audio and video for future generations to draw on. The three part project will engage local speakers in conversation |