Assiniboine & Sioux Tribal Histories, Language & Literature Project

Recipient: Shanley, James E (Poplar, MT 59255 USA) in affiliation with Fort Peck Community College

Goal: A project to enhance the Institution's humanities program in Assiniboine and Sioux languages, tribal histories, and literature.

Description: This proposed project will enhance the humanities offerings of the institution in the context of its Mission, in three components: Tribal Language Revitalization Summit, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribal Histories Resources Development, and Tribal Histories and Literature Curriculum Integration.

Grant: 196905 / AD-50022-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

"The Campus Literary Discussion Series, Unifying the College Through Literature" project

Recipient: Winn, Ryan (Keshena, WI 54135 USA) in affiliation with College of Menominee Nation (Keshena, WI 54135-1179 USA)

Goal: A project to create a campus-wide literary discussion series.

Description: The Campus Literary Discussion Series, Unifying the College Through Literature Project

Grant: 196906 / AD-50023-09,   Category: Literature,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2009

Indian Education for All

Recipient: Campbell, Margarett (Poplar, MT 59255 USA) in affiliation with Fort Peck Community College

Goal: To Support: A series of professional development activities for Montana school teachers on the history and culture of the Nakona and Dakota people.

Description: This project will utilize the resources collected over the past two years in the development of an extensive bibliography, a complete writing of the history of the Nakona and Dakota people, utilizing historical documents and materials specific to these tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The history of the Nakona (Assiniboine) and Dakota (Sioux) will be presented for the first time to public school teachers, staff, parents, and community members, tribal college students and non-humanities faculty, by the humanities faculty and visiting scholars of Fort Peck Community College. This project will create opportunities for faculty members in the humanities division to study together while improving their compacity to teach the humanities, and to be able to share their knowledge with other faculty members that teach in other disciplines. It will fund visiting scholars with extensive knowledge of the Nakona and Dakota people, as guest speakers and workshop leaders.

Grant: 189574 / AD-50015-08,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

Lummi Video Curriculum Project

Recipient: Kinley, Sharon (Bellingham, WA 98226 USA) in affiliation with Northwest Indian College

Description: The Northwest Indian College is committed to providing Native language and culture education. Coast Salish languages are considered highly endangered. Effective language programs are urgently needed. The College is located on Lummi Nation. There are less than ten speakers of the Lummi language. With grant funds, the College's Coast Salish Institute will employ digital technology in the production of 13 videos that teach Lummi language and culture. Print-based curricula will be developed to accompany each video. Educators at Lummi will be coached in the use of the newly created curricula. A two-day, hands-on conference that will be attended by at least 75 language and culture educators from at least 25 tribes will provide an opportunity to share this approach to curriculum development. Coast Salish Institute staff and consultants will work with Language and Culture Departments from other tribes to help them begin to develop similar curricula for their tribe.

Grant: 189576 / AD-50017-08,   Category: Languages,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2008

To Sanction, To Give Authority, To Bring to Life: Gi-bugadin-a-maa-goom

Recipient: Belgarde, Nyleta (Mahnomen, MN 56557-0478 USA) in affiliation with White Earth Tribal and Community College (Mahnomen, MN 56557 USA)

Goal: The development of a digital resource to support the preservation and revitalization of the Ojibwe language and culture.

Description: This proposed project involves four partnering institutions who are interested in developing a unique digital resource to support the preservation and revitialization of the Ojibwe language of the Anishinaabeg people of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The institutions include Itasca Community College (ICC), the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), the University of Pennsylvania (PENN) - specifically the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the White Earth Tribal and Community College (WETCC). This consortium, working together with the faculty at White Earth, will combine state-of-the-art technology with traditional Anishinaabeg ways of knowledge to create a digital archive of stories and artifacts from the community.

Grant: 184626 / AD-50007-07,   Category: Languages,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007

The Frontier of Native American Literature: Imaginative Paths to Discovery

Recipient: Soliz, Cristine (Pueblo, CO 86556 USA) in affiliation with Dine College (Tsalie, AZ 86556 USA)

Goal: A year-long series of workshops for faculty at Dine College that would explore Native American literature.

Description: Fifteen interdisciplinary faculty from three Din? College campuses will conduct seminars through video-conferencing over two semesters to examine Native American literature and ways to use it across the curricula to advance active learning in diverse fields and as a way to challenge students to participate in critical writing in those fields. We will read foundational works in Native fiction and theory, guided by goals that seek a greater understanding of the complex relation that tribal colleges have to Native literature, a greater cohesiveness and communicativeness among faculty who have little opportunity for intellectual interaction, and a better understanding of the role that humanities can play in creating a vibrant and challenging intellectual climate for a community of learners. Visits from two noted scholars will enhance an exciting, intellectual experience that will positively impact our students and help strengthen the continuing growth of a dynamic academic community.

Grant: 184625 / AD-50006-07,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2007

Sustaining the Spirit: Fostering a Menominee Centered Historical Inquiry and Interpretation

Recipient: Cook, Melissa Kay (Keshena, WI 54135 USA) in affiliation with College of Menominee Nation (Keshena, WI 54135-1179 USA)

Goal: A collaborative project with the Newberry Library that would identify archival resources and produce public exhibits and curricular materials for humanities courses.

Description: This project is the second phase of a collaboration between College of Menominee Nation and The Newberry Library to create a learning environment and repository of knowledge that builds upon and sustains the Menominee community experience by 1. Providing for further exploration and categorization of the historical material on Menominee 2. Providing for a public exhibit on Menominee History and Culture at the College of Menominee Nation and The Newberry Library on the inventoried collections 3. Sponsor and host a regional conference on Menominee Culture and History 4. Develop curriculum and course materials, utilizing Menominee collection materials to produce resources to support College faculty teaching in the humanities.

Grant: 179863 / AD-50003-06,   Category: Education,   Division: Education Programs,   Year Awarded: 2006