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When: March 25-26, 2022
When: March 25-26, 2022
Where: 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, IL
Where: 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, IL
What: Training for community members, organizations, UIUC students and faculty invested in language reclamation and language justice projects to develop and implement community-based language surveys, and to deepen our understanding of the role of language activists in this process
What: Training for community members, organizations, UIUC students and faculty invested in language reclamation and language justice projects to develop and implement community-based language surveys, and to deepen our understanding of the role of language activists in this process
Who: Tyler Peterson (Arizona State University/American Indian Language Development Institute), Cordella Moses (San Carlos Apache Tribe/AILDI), Marilyn Reed (Navajo Nation/AILDI)
Who: Tyler Peterson (Arizona State University/American Indian Language Development Institute), Cordella Moses (San Carlos Apache Tribe/AILDI), Marilyn Reed (Navajo Nation/AILDI)
Contact details can be found here
This website is the digital home of our workshop. Here you can find all of the schedule of activities (below), all of the workshop-related documents, as well as many other resources related to survey design for language vitality.
This website is the digital home of our workshop. Here you can find all of the schedule of activities (below), all of the workshop-related documents, as well as many other resources related to survey design for language vitality.
Day 1 (March 25) schedule of activities
Day 1 (March 25) schedule of activities
Morning (9:00)
Morning (9:00)
Welcoming and introductions
The NSF/AILDI Assessing and Documenting the Vitality of Native American Languages project
Background and presentation
Cordella and Marilyn share their experiences
Outline of the workshop goals, objectives, and activities
Activity: what does 'language vitality' mean to you?
Divide into groups
Each group designates a note-taker; elect a group member to report results to the workshop
Discussion
LUNCH (12:00)
LUNCH (12:00)
Afternoon (1:00)
Afternoon (1:00)
What are surveys? What do we use them for? What are the steps in designing one for language vitality?
The meanings of questions: what are you 'doing' when you ask a question, how questions affect us and create biases
Activity: thinking about questions
Divide into groups
Create 5 questions on flip charts and markers
Each group designates a note-taker
Sharing with the workshop
Summarize the day; sharing, and Question and Answer time
Day 2 (March 26) schedule of activities
Day 2 (March 26) schedule of activities
Morning (9:00)
Morning (9:00)
Welcoming
Activity: what kind of survey do you need? Assessing your needs, resources, and team
Divide into groups based on projects, and work on A worksheet for developing a survey on language vitality
Each group designates a note-taker; elect a group member to report results to the workshop
Analysis and feedback on a sample of these questions; revisions
LUNCH (12:00)
LUNCH (12:00)
Afternoon (1:00)
Afternoon (1:00)
Activity: thinking about the questions that meet your survey goals
Divide into groups
Each group designates a note-taker; elect a group member to report results to the workshop
Sharing with the workshop, assemble survey
Based on the project work, write/collaborate on a one paragraph project proposal
Summarize the day and workshop; Question and Answer time
Farewells!
Other activities (if time)
Other activities (if time)
Demonstration of coding a survey using Google Forms
Planning next steps in implementing your survey
Participants code surveys
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
In our workshop we recognize and acknowlede that we are on the lands of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Chickasaw Nations. These lands were the traditional territory of these Native Nations prior to their forced removal; these lands continue to carry the stories of these Nations and their struggles for survival and identity.
As a land-grant institution, the University of Illinois has a particular responsibility to acknowledge the peoples of these lands, as well as the histories of dispossession that have allowed for the growth of this institution for the past 150 years. We are also obligated to reflect on and actively address these histories and the role that this university has played in shaping them. This acknowledgement and the centering of Native peoples is a start as we move forward for the next 150 years.
The development of these materials was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation - Documenting Endangered Languages Program for the project Assessing and Documenting the Vitality of Native American Languages (1601738) awarded to Tyler Peterson (PI) and Ofelia Zepeda (Co-PI), with support from the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI).
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