Revitalization Programs
Programs Concerned with Alaska Native Language (ANL) Revitalization
(Note: This list is probably incomplete. You may add your program or correct your information by sending email to ldkaplan@alaska.edu.)
Lawrence Kaplan, Alaska Native Language Center – June 6, 2012
- I. Documentation
- Alaska Native Language Center/ UAF: www.uaf.edu/anlc
(publishes dictionaries, grammars, texts, scholarly articles on Alaska Native languages) - Alaska Native Language Archive/UAF: www.uaf.edu/anla
(archives original materials and recordings, assists regional archiving) - Sealaska Heritage Institute: www.sealaskaheritage.org
(dictionaries of Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian and other language materials) - Eskimo Heritage Program, Kawerak, Inc., Nome: https://kawerak.org/cultural-
development/eskimo-heritage- program/
(Records and archives oral tradition for Bering Strait region) - Kodiak Alutiiq Museum: alutiiqmuseum.org/alutiiq-language.html
(Alutiiq language materials and information) - North Slope Borough Commission on Iñupiat History, Language, and Culture: nsb-ihlc.com
(Elders’ Conference transcripts and recordings, Inupiaq oral tradition, video) - Simon Paneak Memorial Museum, Anaktuvuk Pass: spmm.nsb-ihlc.com
(museum exhibits, publications, library for Nunamiut Iñupiat) - Association of Village Council Presidents: www.ypmuseum.org
(museum displays and publications) - Individual authors and teams: Ann Fienup-Riordan and Yup’ik team, Paul John, and Calista
Elders Council: www.calistaelderscouncil.org
(Central Yup’ik publications, museum exhibits and catalogs)
Richard and Nora Dauenhauer -- Tlingit literature - Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center: www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/index.html
(exhibits, publications, videos for diverse ANLs) - Alaska Native Heritage Center: www.alaskanative.net
- Alaska Native Knowledge Network (ANKN): ankn.uaf.edu (widely varied content on ANLs)
- Kodiak Alutiiq (Qik'rtarmiut) Teacher Mentorship Program: www.alutiiqlanguage.org
- Alaska Native Language Center/ UAF: www.uaf.edu/anlc
- Materials for Language Learning and Teaching
- Rural School districts publish materials and on-line resources for local languages
- Kuskokwim School District: www.lksd.org/catalog/index2.html
- Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Yup’ik Immersion School: http://web2.lksd.org/ayaprun/Ayaprun_Elitnaurvik/
- North Slope Borough School District: www.nsbsd.org/departments/curriculum-and-instruction/cultural-resources
- Yukon Kuskokwim School District: www.yksd.com/23011091194490/site/default.asp
- Nikaitchuat Ilisaġviat Iñupiaq Immersion School: kotzebueira.org/nikaitchuat.html
- Many of the organizations under (I) above: Alaska Native Language Center, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Kodiak Alutiiq Museum, ANKN, etc.
- Rural School districts publish materials and on-line resources for local languages
- Language classes
- College level
- Alaska Native Language Program/UAF (currently offers Inupiaq, Yup’ik, Koyukon and Gwich’in Athabascan, with B.A. degrees in Inupiaq and Yupik): www.uaf.edu/anlc/classes/
- Kuskokwim Campus/UAF (Yup’ik language classes and Yup’ik B.A. degree taught primarily in Yup’ik): http://catalog.uaf.edu/bachelors/bachelors-degree-programs/yupik-language-culture/
- Chukchi Campus/UAF (Malimiu Inupiaq)
- Northwest Campus/UAF (Seward Peninsula Inupiaq)
- Kodiak College/UAA: www.kod.alaska.edu (new Alutiiq Studies Program)
- UAA Main Campus, Alaska Native Studies Program: www.uaa.alaska.edu/native/ (Yup’ik, Tlingit)
- UAS, Alaska Native Studies: (Tlingit, Haida) www.uas.alaska.edu/academics/undergrad/minors/ans.html
- Schools – numerous schools offer ANL’s as part of their curriculum, with everything from language immersion to short periods several times per week
- Special language programs
- Eyak Language Project: sites.google.com/site/eyaklanguageproject/
- Mentor-apprentice learning: Kodiak Alutiiq Museum, Alaska Native Language Program/UAF (learners paired with speakers)
- College level
- Language Committees and Commissions
- Alutiiq New Words Committee: www.alutiiqmuseum.org/alutiiq-language/new-words.html
- North Slope Borough Iñupiat History, Language and Culture: nsb-ihlc.com
- Gwich’in language committee: Hishinlai’ Kathy Sikorski, krsikorski@alaska.edu
- Tlingit Words Committee
- Resource Websites
- Alaskool: www.alaskool.org
- Dena’ina Qenaga: qenaga.org (Dena’ina Athabascan resources)
- Alaska Native Language Center: www.uaf.edu/anlc
- Alaska Native Language Archive: www.uaf.edu/anla
- Sealaska Heritage Institute: www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/language_resources.htm
- Kodiak Alutiiq Museum: alutiiqmuseum.org/alutiiq-language.html
- Alaska State Library Digital Archive: vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/pathway
- Ahtna Heritage Foundation: ahtnaheritagefoundation.com
- Talking Alaska, Reflections on the Native Languages of Alaska (blog): talkingalaska.blogspot.com
- Ethnologue, Languages of the World: www.ethnologue.com
- Alaska Native Knowledge Network: ankn.uaf.edu
- Kodiak Alutiiq (Qik'rtarmiut) Teacher Mentorship Program: www.alutiiqlanguage.org
1 November 2016