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Come be a mentor in the Breath of Life Achival Institute for Indigenous Languages
Washington, DC, June 13-24, 2011
>>>Application Deadline: March 1, 2011<<<
Sponsors: Endangered Language Fund, National Anthropological Archives,
National Museum of the American Indian, Library of Congress
We invite graduate students, faculty and other scholars who specialize in Linguistics, and preferably in Native American or First Nations languages, to apply to be mentors for the Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages. The institute will be held in Washington, D.C. this coming June, and is funded by the Documenting Endangered Languages program of the National Science Foundation.
At this hands-on set of workshops, teams of participants (Native American/First Nations heritage language learners, teachers and activists) paired with mentors (experts in linguistics who help guide the participants' work), will explore the language resources in archives in the District of Columbia area, particularly the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archive. Morning workshops on linguistics, archival research and language revitalization will be held at the National Museum of the American Indian. Visits to the archives will be supplemented by lectures and workshops on linguistics, language teaching and learning, and related topics. Participants and mentors will be staying in the dorms at George Washington University, where they can network and study together in the evenings.
Mentor duties will primarily consist of working closely with your assigned team of participants, helping them find materials in the archives, helping them learn phonetics, grammatical analysis and other linguistic skills, and helping them with homework assignments in the evenings. Mentors will stay in the dorms at George Washington University, along with participants. The institute will pay for your rooms and will provide breakfasts and lunches (most of the time dinner is on your own), and will pay for transportation to and from Washington, D.C. (capped at $600). The registration fee which will be charged to participants is waived for mentors.
The mentor application form can be found at the following link: http://www.jotform.com/breathoflife/3343200997