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Download full textLinn, Mary S.; Naranjo, Tessie; Nicholas, Sheilah; Slaughter, Inee; Yamamoto, Akira; Zepeda, Ofelia – 2002
The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) collaborates with indigenous language communities to combat language decline. ILI facilitates community-based language programs, increases public awareness of language endangerment, and disseminates information on language preservation and successful language revitalization programs. In response to numerous…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Community Programs, Educational Strategies
McCarty, Teresa L.; Watahomigie, Lucille J.; Yamamoto, Akira Y.; Zepeda, Ofelia – 1997
This paper describes the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), which can serve as a model for connecting school, community, and university resources to strengthen indigenous languages. Since 1978, AILDI has held annual summer institutes that team community-based native speakers of indigenous languages with academic linguists and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education, Educational Cooperation
Peer reviewedZepeda, Ofelia – Practicing Anthropology, 1999
The O'odham Nation is developing an O'odham dictionary in collaboration with the University of Arizona. The project is unique because it is conducted by tribal members and funded by the tribe. The group is proposing locating language centers throughout the reservation to mobilize community involvement in the project and to assist the Nation's…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Community Involvement, Dictionaries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMcCarty, Teresa L.; Zepeda, Ofelia – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Discusses the 13 papers in this special issue on American Indian and Alaska Native language education and literacy, the object of which is to critically examine the relationship of pedagogical change to larger sociopolitical and cultural processes affecting native language, bilingual, and bicultural programs. (three references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians
Peer reviewedZepeda, Ofelia – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Describes the O'odham language and oral tradition of the Tohono O'odham Indians of southern Arizona, relating it to the development of O'odham children's English literacy. Oral tradition and school literacy constitute opposite ends of a literacy continuum, in which English literacy is often isolated from and in conflict with O'odham literacy. (10…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Zepeda, Ofelia – 1983
A Papago grammar, intented to help Papago and other junior high, high school and college students learn and appreciate the language and give linguists an overview of the language, contains background information on the language and the book, two grammar units, a unit of five conversations in Papago, and a section of supplementary material. Text…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
