2009-CURRENTLY FUNDED PROJECTS
The Endangered Language Fund is pleased to announce grant recipients for 2009. Ten projects from around the world were selected for funding from a record ninety competitive proposals. ELF supports endangered language preservation and documentation projects that benefit both the indigenous community and the field of linguistics. These awards are funded by the generous support of our donors. If you would like to help ELF make such awards available in the future, please visit the donor information page at www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/donate.html
Ruth Rouvier and Susan Gehr
The Karuk Tribe
Karuk Master-Apprentice Documentation Project Expansion Plan
Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
Kenyatta University, Kenya
Living on Borrowed Time; Giving a Lifeline to the Olusuba Language of Kenya through Orature
Carolina Coelho Aragon
University of Utah
Documentation of Akuntsú
Tammy Goss, Jim Thunder, Billy Daniels, and Mary Jane Thunder
University of Wisconsin / Forest County Potawatomi
Potawatomi Dictionary Project
Marsha Relyea Miles and Steven Dazim
Pioneer Bible Translators / Aruamu Community
Aruamu BIG BOOK Project
Tanis C. Thorne, Michael L. Connolly, Richard L. Carrico, and Richard Bugbee
University of California, Irvine / San Diego State University
“Place-Making:” Mapping Kumeyaay Place–names
Richard Pouliot
Gedakina, Inc
Bagadal8mow8gannawal, Bringing Back Our Songs
Defen Yu
Yunnan Nationalities University, Kunming, China
The Documentation of Zijun Samadu, a Tibeto-Burman Language of China
Pilar M. Valenzuela
Chapman University
Awakening Shiwilu Voices
Anita Heard
Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways, The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan
Mnaajchigaadenoon Ngamwinan. Celebrating Songs Harvest Project