Language Resources
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Teacher Training
Indigenous Languages often face shortages for teachers, and the intensity of the workload at times is compounded by community pressures and lateral violence.
Aanikoobijigeng is committed to gathering materials on Indigenous language teacher training, and making those resources available.
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Native American Language Data
Language data includes the number of speakers, ages of the speaking population, intergenrational transmission, and information on domains and official status.
Aanikoobijigeng is committed to working with Indigenous communities to monitor the status of Native American languages and collaborating with Indigenous communities to collect and interpret language data.
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Policy and Advocacy
Language movements often require social and governmental shift. The approaches vary when looking at local and individual shifts (micro), institutions and communities (meso), and governments (macro).
Aanikoobijigeng includes people and organizations who have been involved in substantial shifts at all three levels, and is committed to gathering resources that focus on being changemakers that improve the health and opportunities for Inidgenous languages.
Curriculum
Many language programs struggle to develop, distribute, and maintain materials to teach and use their language. Aanikoobijigeng sees curriculum as much more than the physical items used to teach and use a language, and instead sees curriculum as a philosophy on how to develop, implement, assess, and edit materials for teaching and also how to organize and create access to materials for those who need it. For many languages, differences in dialect and approach might result in duplication of effort, or in a lack of materials needed in order to grow a language movement.
Aanikoobijigeng is committed to gathering examples of curriculum programs that are effective in their operations, and will share resources on Indigenous language curriuculum development and management.
Mokuola Honua
Mokuola Honua Global Center For Indigenous Language Excellence is named for the small island in Hilo Bay called Mokuola. Literally, an “island of life and healing,” Mokuola is a traditional healing site for Native Hawaiians.
A number of incredible resources were created and gathered during the creation of Mokuola Honua, which was started to be a gathering place – both physical and virtual – fostering collaborations on a wide range of indigenous issues and strategies, all of which are grounded in strong language fluency.
This was the foundation of what became Aanikoobijigeng, the National Native American Language Resource Center. The resources gathered at Mokuola Honua can be accessed using the link below.
