Digital Library Projects at the American Indian Studies Research Institute

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Digital Library Projects at theAmerican Indian
Studies Research Institute
Raymond J. DeMallie, Director Douglas
R.Parks, Associate Director Wallace Hooper,
Director of Software Development
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Digital Library Collaborations at AISRI

• Plains Indian Languages Consortium professional
  linguists with related research interests seeking
  to provide data and resources over the web
• Dakota Indian Foundation Digital Archives
  Project. The Ella DeLoria Papers.
• Lakota Language Consortium Development of
  curriculum and instructional materials for use in
  Lakota school districts under the sponsorship of
  the Oglala Nation Education Consortium.

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Lakota Language Consortium Schools
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Mission of AISRI

• Anthropology, linguistics and ethnohistory of the
  North American Plains Indians
• Language documentation concentrations in Siouan
  and Caddoan languages
• Language stabilization and revitalization
• Development of useful computer applications and
  resources

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Publication Programs

• Studies in the Anthropology of North American
  Indians 24 titles
• Sources of American Indian Oral Literature 7
  titles
• Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians,
  Plains Volume
• Anthropological Linguistics, quarterly journal

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State of Native American LanguagesCase of Lakota
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Language Documentation

• Elicitation of lexical data for the construction
  of reference dictionaries
• Collection of texts, oral literature, and use of
  historical linguistic sources
• Establishment of sound archives AISRIs Center
  for the Documentation of Endangered Languages

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Indiana Dictionary Database Processor
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IDD Browse Screen
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IDD Entry Screen
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IDD Gloss Screen
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Annotated Text Processor
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Language Instruction

• Traditional pedagogical model certified teacher
  team-teaching with a tribal elder
• Use of computer-based instructional aids
• Teacher training
• Immersion

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Arikira LessonsSample Dictation Exercise Page
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Arikara LessonsSample Sentence Patterns Exercise
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Arikara LessonCultural Lessons
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Preparing Digital Library Materials Data
modeling in the Indiana Text Lab
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TextLab Model for an IDD Dictionary
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TextLab Model for a Grammar