The Dakota Lemmatizer & Dictionary Expansion Project will begin with Objective 1: Digitize a corpus od approximately 3000 scanned pages of newspapers written in Dakota and Lakota. Complete digitization of these documents will convert each newspaper article from a scanned image of a physical paper to a full text, searchable document.
The Dakota Lemmatizer & Dictionary Expansion Project will begin with Objective 1: Digitize a corpus od approximately 3000 scanned pages of newspapers written in Dakota and Lakota. Complete digitization of these documents will convert each newspaper article from a scanned image of a physical paper to a full text, searchable document.
Since the 1980s, our Veteran's Park has had very limited displays consisting of one short flag pole, one veteran's monument display, and one kneeling solder. Our plan would include:
1. Parking for visitors
2. Increased sidewalk for accessibility
3. A 35ft. flagpole for the American flag and POW flag centrally located
4. Five 25 ft. flagpoles for each branch of service
5. A concrete statue for each branch of service (Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Air Force, Coast Guard), that would represent the Minnesota legacy of service in the Armed Forces.
With a new grant from MIAC, CWOO will focus on expanding Dakota language teaching capacities for Lower Sioux. In the 2020 Lower Sioux Annual Community Survey, the Community reported that 27% of the membership are learning Dakota, up from 20% in 2019 but not yet at our target of 33% by 2022. Respondents (representing half of the enrolled adult members of the tribe) revealed that only 13% of members speak Dakota daily. This is not adequate to revitalize our mother tongue. To achieve more consistent speaking of Dakota, Lower Sioux must expand its efforts.
By the end of the FY25 grant programming period, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe will have hired and worked with Contractors with specialization or experience in Ojibwe culture and/or materials production in order to collect, curate, manage, and make available Ojibwe Language media in written, audio, and audiovisual forms which may be used with the Nay Ah Shing Schools as Ojibwe Language and History tools.
By the end of the FY25 grant programming period, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe will have hired and worked with Contractors with specialization or experience in Ojibwe culture and/or materials production in order to collect, curate, manage, and make available Ojibwe Language media in written, audio, and audiovisual forms which may be used with the Nay Ah Shing Schools as Ojibwe Language and History tools.
