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	<title>Living Languages</title>
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	<description>a cyberbreath for language life</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Digital Drum - Aboriginal Cultural Expression</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/digital-drum-aboriginal-cultural-expression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network designed a sophisticated Website last year to allow people to showcase their traditional storytelling, community traditions, music and other cultural activities.
Supported through the efforts of Executive Producer Wayne Clark, Producer Philip Djwa and a host of other talented people, the Digital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Languages - Continuing Award for Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/alaska-languages-continuing-award-for-collaboration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last September, the NSF awarded the University of Alaska Fairbanks just over US$450,000, with Michael Krauss as principal investigator, to study 11 endangered languages in Alaska.
The languages to be studied (with Wikipedia and Ethnologue links) are: Han Athabascan (haa), Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan (kuu), Eyak (eya), Tlingit (tli), Southern Tsimshian (tsi), North Slope Inupiaq (esi), Central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwest Journal of Linguistics - open, online and peer-reviewed</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/northwest-journal-of-linguistics-open-online-and-peer-reviewed/</link>
		<comments>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/northwest-journal-of-linguistics-open-online-and-peer-reviewed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Journals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NWJL is an online journal focusing on indigenous languages of northwestern North America, providing peer-reviewed articles and open access. Designated as one of five hotspots in the world for language endangerment, the northwestern North America region will benefit from the exposure its languages receive in the Journal.
Started last year, the NWJL has a full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyak Falls Silent</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/eyak-falls-silent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wakablogger</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eyak (eya)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the passing of Chief Marie Smith Jones on January 21, Eyak (eya) lost its last native speaker. Spoken in south-central Alaska, Eyak is its own branch of the Athabascan-Eyak language family, comprising about 20 Native languages in Alaska. She had worked extensively with Michael Krauss, a professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student job</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/student-job/</link>
		<comments>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/student-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wakablogger</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Bender at the University of Washington (Seattle) is looking for a student to help out with some research on Native American languages. Fluency is not required. Students need to have at least one year of study in a Native American language. A visit or two is required for orientation, but the work does not need to be performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software for Scholarship</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/software-for-scholarship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wakablogger</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Work is underway to better cross-analyze ancient texts using advanced software tools. This work is a collaboration called the Archimedes Project between the Dept. of the Classics at Harvard Univ. and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - see Scholars resuscitate dead languages.
The Archimedes Project specifically aims at learning about how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three news items</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/three-news-items/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doris Jean Lamar is the last speaker of Wichita: Tribal language fading away (includes a slide show in Wichita and English)
Director Conner of Tamastslikt Cultural Institute awarded money for hunting and language: Buffett Award money to be used for cultural projects
Washington Post article includes mention of Yawuru and Magati Ke (perhaps Marti Ke): At a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anishinaabemowin in Press &#38; Music</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/anishinaabemowin-in-press-music/</link>
		<comments>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/anishinaabemowin-in-press-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anishinaabemowin (otw)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A native speaker of Anishnaabemowin who survived the residential (boarding) school with her language in tact, Helen Roy is busy promoting Anishnaabemowin at Michigan State University (MSU), a campus located centrally between three Great Lakes and both west and south of the US-Canada border.
Various names are used for the language and dialects: The course listing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/united-nations-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/united-nations-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wakablogger</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Language Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 13 September, the UN passed its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
While the term &#8220;indigenous&#8221; is not defined, its 46 articles affirm the right to self-determination including the pursuits of economic, social and cultural development (Article 3). Other rights include:

Maintaining distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions while participating in those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinker Lecture to Benefit ELF - Thursday</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/pinker-lecture-to-benefit-elf-thursday/</link>
		<comments>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/pinker-lecture-to-benefit-elf-thursday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lecture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pinker will be lecturing at Harvard on Thursday, November 15, at 8:00 PM with the proceeds to benefit ELF, the Endangered Language Fund. The lecture will be on his book The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature and will be in William James Hall. Admission is $20 ($10 for students).
This [...]]]></description>
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