Origins
This site was originally
begun as a class project for Linguistics 4100,
taught in Fall, 2001, in cooperation with CU's Technology,
Artsand
Media (TAM) certificate program, a division of the ATLAS
Institute. Additional development was done by Andrew Cowell, Director
of CU's Center
for the Study of Indigenous
Languages of the West (CSILW). Many images on the site were produced
by Dr. Cowell and his students.
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Current Version
In the Fall of 2004, another class, ATLAS 4010, revised
the website as part of their TAM Capstone class, and further revisions
were
made by Dr. Cowell and a graduate student in Linguistics, Hartwell
Francis. The revisions were funded by the Colorado
Endowment for the Humanities,
with additional support from the US National
Park Service and Rocky Mountain National Park, the University
of Colorado, the Boulder County (Colorado)
Nature Association, and private
donors.
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Composite image by Colbert Levy,
University of Colorado
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Tribal Collaboration
A number of individuals from the Northern
Arapaho Tribe collaborated on the project, providing language and cultural
information, feedback on the site, and also some site development in conjunction
at Wind River Tribal
College. Dr. Cowell
received valuable support from Sky
People Higher Education, and the Northern
Arapaho Bilingual Education Program while working on the Wind River Reservation.
He would especially like to thank Alonzo Moss, Sr, Co-chair of the Northern
Arapaho Language and
Culture Commission for his contributions to the Language and Places portions
of the site, Eugene Ridgely, Jr. for his help in coordinating summer research
work, and Merle Haas for personal support and logistical help.
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