Planning Grant: Collaborative Research: Increasing Montana's Tribal College Engagement in Language Documentation and Revitalization

规划补助金：合作研究：增加蒙大拿州部落学院对语言文献和振兴的参与

• 批准号: 1800820
• 负责人: Mizuki Miyashita
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-02-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1800820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Collaborative; Research; Increasing

The state of Montana is home to nine Native American languages (Blackfoot, Montana Salish, Kutenai, Northern Cheyenne, Gros Ventre, Cree, Chippewa, Crow, and Assiniboine) and has seven Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). This project reinforces the mandate of the Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, which called for stakeholders, including Native American activists, to act together to "declare to preserve, protect and promote the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice and develop" these languages. The TCUs in Montana have been offering Native American language courses to encourage the sustainability of Native languages. This collaborative project between the University of Montana (UM) and one of the TCUs, Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC), aims to support the efforts of Montana TCUs by enriching language instructors' and activists' experience through an exchange of ideas and knowledge with instructors and training partners from UM, CDKC and the American Indian Language Institute (AILDI) of the University of Arizona. The proposed activities foster a positive relationship across institutions and will help identify current issues that may become the focus of future training workshops. The project's broader impacts include building the capacity of language documentation programs at Montana TCUs, enhancing STEM education through technology utilized in language documentation and education, and serving underrepresented populations who often have difficulty accessing training due to the remoteness of their locations. This collaborative project seeks to cultivate common ground for communication across institutional boundaries. It aims to promote the idea that an increased knowledge of linguistics, as a science, can benefit TCU programs related to indigenous language sustainability as well as the idea that linguistics can benefit from community input. The indigenous languages spoken in Montana are from four different families: Algonquian, Salishan, Siouan, and Kootenai, an isolate. Because of this, the proposed project will advance our knowledge of the linguistics of these languages. The project is also innovative in applying collaboration among linguists and community language researchers, a method known as Community Based Research (CBR) in a way that fosters and enhances our understanding of these languages' phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax and semantics through the lens of traditional environmental knowledge and ethnosciences. A collaborative team, consisting of four language activists from indigenous communities and four non-indigenous linguists, will travel to TCUs in Montana to learn about the current efforts and future goals of their language activities. The collaborative team will then host meetings with selected participants from the Montana TCUs for further discussions. Results will be compiled from these activities feed into future documentation research and indigenous language education through workshops that will circulate the information back to indigenous communities. These project outcomes have the potential to implement indigenous ways of knowing into language documentation projects.

蒙大拿州是九种美国原住民语言的所在地（布莱克富特，蒙大拿州·萨利什，库特纳，北夏安，格罗斯·文特，克里斯，克里，奇珀瓦，乌鸦和阿西尼宾），并拥有七个部落科大学和大学（TCUS）。该项目加强了美国国会在1990年通过的《美国原住民语言法》的授权，该法案呼吁包括美国原住民激进主义者在内的利益相关者共同采取行动，以“宣布保存，保护和促进美洲原住民的权利和自由，以利用，实践和发展这些语言”。蒙大拿州的TCU一直在提供美洲原住民语言课程，以鼓励母语的可持续性。蒙大拿大学（UM）与TCUS，首席枯燥刀学院（CDKC）之一之间的合作项目旨在通过与UM，CDKC和美国印第安语言学院（Alizona of Arizona）的UM，CDKC和美国印第安语言研究所的教练和培训伙伴交流思想和培训伙伴，以丰富语言讲师和激进主义者的经验来支持蒙大拿州TCU的努力。拟议的活动促进了整个机构之间的积极关系，并将有助于确定可能成为未来培训研讨会的重点的当前问题。该项目的更广泛的影响包括在蒙大拿州TCUS建立语言文档计划的能力，通过在语言文档和教育中使用的技术增强STEM教育，并为代表性不足的人群提供服务，这些人群经常由于其所在地的偏差而难以获得培训。该协作项目旨在培养跨机构界限的共同基础。它旨在促进这样一种观念，即对语言学作为一门科学的越来越多的知识可以使与土著语言可持续性有关的TCU计划受益，以及语言学可以从社区投入中受益的观念。蒙大拿州说的土著语言来自四个不同的家庭：阿尔冈奎安，萨利山，西奥安和孤立的kootenai。因此，拟议的项目将提高我们对这些语言语言学的了解。该项目在运用语言学家和社区语言研究人员之间的合作方面也是一种创新的，这是一种被称为基于社区的研究（CBR）的方法，它通过传统环境知识和民族阶级的镜头来培养和增强我们对这些语言的语音，语音学，形态学和精神学的理解。由来自土著社区和四名非土著语言学家的四名语言活动家组成的合作团队将前往蒙大拿州的TCU，以了解其语言活动的当前努力和未来目标。然后，协作团队将与蒙大拿州TCU的选定参与者举行会议，以进行进一步的讨论。结果将从这些活动中汇编成未来的文档研究和土著语言教育，这些研讨会将把信息传播回本地社区。这些项目成果有可能实施土著方式了解语言文档项目。

项目成果

Collaborative Language Planning Project in Montana

蒙大拿州合作语言规划项目

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Alberta
• 作者: Miyashita, Mizuki;Littlebear, Richard;Penfield, Susan;Sadongei, Alyce;Bar-el, Leora;Appelbaum, Irene
• 通讯作者: Appelbaum, Irene