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The Alaska Native Language Archive: Present and Future Partnerships

The Alaska Native Language Archive: Present and Future Partnerships. Stacey Baldridge Collection Manager, Alaska Native Language Archive University of Alaska Fairbanks. May 24, 2013. 1. Alaska Native Language Center.

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The Alaska Native Language Archive: Present and Future Partnerships

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  1. The Alaska Native Language Archive: Present and Future Partnerships Stacey Baldridge Collection Manager, Alaska Native Language Archive University of Alaska Fairbanks May 24, 2013 1

  2. Alaska Native Language Center founded 1972 by State legislation to be a center for research, documentation, and teaching of the 20 Native languages of Alaska 2

  3. Archive Holdings ~ 1500 linear ft. manuscripts, including nearly everything written in or about Alaska Native languages ~ 5000 recordings 3

  4. Language Families in Alaska • Eskimo-Aleut (5 languages) • Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (13 languages) • 30+ others in Canada and lower 48 • originally called Na-Dene • Haida • Tsimshian • Others? • >14k sites in Tanana Valley • “crossroads of continents” 5

  5. Overview: Partnerships • Who is ANLA partnered with? • Why partnerships are important • Current and future challenges 6

  6. ANLA Partnerships • Ahtna Heritage Foundation (C’ek’aedi Hwnax) Copper Center, Alaska (Ahtna Language) • Sealaska Heritage Institute, Juneau, Alaska (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian) • Native Village of Afognak/Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska (Alutiiq) • Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan Language Preservation and Revitalization. Telida, Alaska Project (Upper Kusko)

  7. Importance of Partnerships • Access worldwide • “Sharing the wealth” • Building bridges and connections • Further language research and documentation

  8. Language documentation • dictionaries • grammars • texts • pedagogical materials 9

  9. Current and Future Challenges • (digital) preservation • (digital) access • repurposing language materials • integration with non-linguistic resources • interface with local language archives • outreach to community-based and academic researchers 11

  10. Digital preservation • initial audio digitization efforts begun in 2000 in collaboration with Oral History • 2003 founding member of Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archiving Network • participant in NSF Electronic Metastructures for Endangered Languages project (E-MELD) • currently working with Surreal Studios to digitize entire audio collection • preservation of digital files at ARSC 12

  11. Access via catalog 13

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  14. Alutiiq Grammar 17

  15. Vast majority of requests are non-linguistic • ethnobotany in the Yukon Flats region • eulogy for Father Rysev • genealogy in the Upper Koyukuk region • Yup’ik music recordings • photos from Prince William Sound region • information on Russian influence in the middle Kuskokwim River region. 18

  16. For further discussion • How can we better collaborate on digital access and partnerships? • How can we better engage with communities to develop and repurpose repatriated materials? • How can partnerships benefit users as well as institutions? 19

  17. smbaldridge@alaska.edu www.uaf.edu/anla

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