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Opportunities for Giving to CU Linguistics
 The
Department of Linguistics hosts the Center
for the Study of Indigenous Languages of
the West (CSILW), a research team whose
focus is the documentation and analysis
of Native American languages of the western
US and Canada. Members also assist tribes
in maintaining, preserving, and revitalizing
their languages where possible. Through
a grant from the National Science Foundation,
CSILW is providing linguistic training
to four Lakota students who hope to lead
language revitalization efforts on South
Dakota reservations. Faculty and doctoral
students affiliated with CSILW have conducted
research on the Arapaho, Gros Ventre/White
Clay, Nez Perce, Lakota, Wichita and Yavapai
languages, among others. CSILW supplies language
materials (at cost) to the general
public and hosts a public-education
website on the Arapaho tribe, the original
inhabitants of the Boulder area when White
settlers arrived. This site supplies extensive
audio-visual material and language lessons
for use by K-8 teachers in Colorado. Donations
to this area will fund student research
projects and field trips, digitization
of language material and the creation of
a web-based distribution system for scholars
and teachers worldwide.
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