The Niibi Center is requesting $54,800 in funding (Competitive) from the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council to design, evaluate and launch a four session Intensive Instructor Practicum and Language Blast weekend program to supplement our emerging home based, family focused language immersion program on White Earth Reservation. Our immersion program, Ayaanikeshkaagewaad, (meaning 'the next ones in succession') is a recently launched project of the Niibi Center. Ayaanikeshkaagewaad seeks to take a new approach to revitalizing Anishinaabe culture and language on White Earth.
Dakhóta Online Learning Platform is a continued language revitalization initiative that takes a novel approach to language revitalization combining several transmission-boosting practices that have been previously successful, with the ultimate aim of spreading the Dakhóta language beyond classroom walls, making it meaningful, useful, and accessible to Dakhóta people in their daily lives at home.
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.
1. Engage young people in learning Dakhota and inspire them to parent and teach Dakhota to their future generations 2. Increase teacher access to engaging Dakhota language materials for classroom use and beyond 3. Engage elders and cultural experts in the co-creation of Dakhota-medium curriculum and materials that transmits traditional knowledge 4. Expand Dakhota learning communities through the production and dissemination of the textbook and accompanying materials.
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.
Develop youth's understanding of the language, their culture and themselves; equip youth with the knowledge, skills and qualities needed for leadership; encourage youths' appreciation forlanguage, cultureal values, teachings, traditions and spirituality; and build youth leadership through meaningful engagement in real community issues.
1.) Coordinate language instruction for Grand Portage students from Head Start to Cook County High School in order to produce fluent speakers. 2.) Establish language programming for families: language table, radio program, and language camps. 3.) Develop new Ojibwe language projects based on community input.
1.) Coordinate language instruction for Grand Portage students from Head Start to Cook County High School in order to produce fluent speakers. 2.) Establish language programming for families: language table, radio program, and language camps. 3.) Develop new Ojibwe language projects based on community input.
Project goals are coordinate language instruction for Grand Portage students from Head Start to Cook County High School in order to produce fluent speakers. Establish language programming for families: language table, radio program, and language camps. Promote Ojibwe language among federal, state, local, and reservation entities. Develop new Ojibwe language projects based on community input.
Project goals are coordinate language instruction for Grand Portage students from Head Start to Cook County High School in order to produce fluent speakers. Establish language programming for families: language table, radio program, and language camps. Promote Ojibwe language among federal, state, local, and reservation entities. Develop new Ojibwe language projects based on community input.
To increase the vibrance and use of the Ojibwe language on the Grand Portage Reservation and build a base knowledge of the language that will support traditional ceremonies and activities.
Objective 1: At outset of project, MLBO staff will meet on a monthly basis in order to provide steering support for programming as well as a means of ensuring quality control for programming in order to ensure effective usage of grant resources. Objective 2: By Month 3 MLBO Administration and NAS Language Staff will have completed internal planning pertaining to usage of contracting funds, including long-term objectives for contracts and future-planning of contract funds which have not yet been allocated.
Objective 1: By September 1, 2019, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (MLBO) Nay Ah Shing (NAS) school and MLBO Human Resources (HR) will contract an hire an Immersion Consultant for delivery of Immersion services within the NAS Ojibwe program to project end. Objective2: By September 1, 2019, MLBO NAS and MLBO HR will contract and hire a Cultural Arts Consultant for delivery of cultural arts services including delivering of crafting and sewing programming as a component of NAS Ojibwe culminating activity.
Objective 1: By Month 1, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (MLBO) Nay Ah Shing (NAS) school and MLBO Human Resources (HR) will have hired on a full-time basis an Immersion Consultant for delivery of Immersion services within the NAS Ojibwe program to project end (position anticipated to be filled by Immersion Consultant retained as component of Year 1 implementation).
Objective 1: By September 20, 2019, staff of MLBO Ojibwe Language Immersion program and MLBO OMB professionals responsible for relevant acquisition processes will purchase materials and resources necessary for the student attendance of Language Bowl and other quiz-type Ojibwe language competitions throughout the state, as well as those necessary for hosting a Language Bowl at MLBO, including financial provision for travel, food, and competition materials, as allowed by relevant granting policies and procedures.
By the end of the FY22 grant programming period, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe will have hired and worked with Contractors in Editing and Production in order to edit, design, and produce a physical Bilingual Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (MLBO) History Book which will be used with the Nay Ah Shing Schools as an Ojibwe Language and History tool while also satisfying all relevant Minnesota and Federal education standards.
1. Engage youth and college student in learning Dahkota through immersion, inspiring them to parent and teach in Dakhota in their turn. 2. Educate youth (5-22 years) about healthy and traditional eating, while empowering them to lead change toward food sovereignty and language revitalization in their communities. 3. Increase teacher effectiveness, both within the classroom, and as leaders in engaging the Dakhota community in the use of the language and traditional knowledge. 4.
1. Engage youth and college student in learning Dahkota through immersion, inspiring them to parent and teach in Dakhota in their turn. 2. Educate youth (5-22 years) about healthy and traditional eating, while empowering them to lead change toward food so
1. Coordinate language instruction for Grand Portage students from Head Start to Cook County High School in order to produce fluent speakers. 2. Establish language programming for families: language table, radio program, and language camps. 3. Promote collaboration on Ojibwe language programs among federal, state, local, and reservation entities. 4. Develop new Ojibwe language projects based on community input.
1. Coordinate language instruction for Grand Portage students from Head Start to Cook Country High School in order to produce fluent speakers. 2. Establish language programming for families: language table, radio program, and language camps. 3. Promotoe collaboration on Ojibwe language programs among federal, state, local, and reservation entities. 4. Develop new Ojibwe language projects based on community input.
1. Make Dakota Language revitalization the highest priority 2. Implement all strategies to revive the Dakota language 3. Take necessary steps to raise up a new generation of speakers
1. A completion of a Dakota Language Survey of adult Upper Sioux Community members 2. The development of a Dakota Language Game Application 3. The development and implementation of Dakota Language Lesson Plans for three age groups for both in-person classes and on-line classes (adult, youth, and preschool) 4. The development of an online Dakota Language teaching tool of basic terms and usage that will be art of an existing website project being created by the Upper Sioux Community Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO).
1. A completion of a Dakota Language Survey of adult Upper Sioux Community members 2. The development of a Dakota Language Game Application 3. The development and implementation of Dakota Language Lesson Plans for three age groups for both in-person classes and online classes (adult, youth, and preschool) 4. The development of an online Dakota language teaching tool of basic terms and usage that will be part of an existing website project being created by the Upper Sioux Community Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO)
The three (3) long-range goals of the Upper Sioux Community regarding the preservation and continuation of the Dakota language and culture are directly tied to the Mission Statement adopted in 1996 and delineated in the 2008 Dakota Language Revitalization Tribal Resolution that promises to: 1) Make Dakota Language revitalization the highest priority 2) Implement all strategies to revive the Dakota language; and 3) take necessary steps to raise up a new generation of speakers.
The three (3) long-range goals of the Upper Sioux Community regarding the preservation and continuation of the Dakota langauge and culture are directly tied to the Mission Statement adopted in 1996 and delineated in the 2008 Dakota Language Revitalization Tribal Resoulution that promises to: "1) [m]ake Dakota Language revitalization the highest priority 2)... implement all strategies to revive the Dakota language; and 3)... take necessary steps to raise up a new generation of speakers."
1. Contract Ojibwe Language Consultant(s) to work within our White Earth Child Care and White Earth Head Start programs to provide support and guidance in Ojibwe Language Development for our youngest learners.
Develop and create an Ojibwe Language Resource Kit for our White Earth Ojibwemowin Teachers who have attained Eminence. Provide technology for Ojibwemowin Teachers to utilize language apps and programs in the classroom and during community gatherings. White Earth will establish virtual weekly community Language Tables. White Earth will establish virtual weekly Teacher language tables, closed to the public.
Develop and create an Ojibwe Language Resource Kit for our White Earth Ojibwemowin Teachers who have attained Eminence. Provide technology for Ojibwemowin Teachers to utilize language apps and programs in the classroom and during community gatherings. White Earth will establish virtual weekly community Language Tables. White Earth will establish virtual weekly Teacher language tables, closed to the public.
