The Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Lethbridge is offering two graduate student positions at the PhD (4 years) or MA (2 years) level, beginning in September 2021. These positions are part of the Blackfoot Language Resources project, which is a partner in the project 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages, funded by....
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Oki! Today we worked very hard with Beverly Hungry Wolf. We recorded words, short sentences, and some procedural texts and recipes. The team now has to process the audio files and then we hope to have them up on our dictionary and story archive soon. For an example of a phrase we recorded last week....
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Today Francis First Charger came to visit our lab to provide some much-needed encouragement and guidance. Francis is one of the resident elders at the University of Lethbridge, and was able to make some time to come downtown to see our lab, even though he is a very busy man! We were very grateful for....
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This year we are again lucky to have a large number of people helping with the Blackfoot Language Resources website. Front row L-R: Brittany Wichers, Don Frantz, Natalie Weber, Shelby Johnson. Middle row L-R: Blaise Russell, Mahaliah Peddle, Inge Genee, Myles Shirakawa, Rachel Hoof. Not pictured: Amanda Thom and Dan O’Donnell. We took this picture....
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Oki! Last year’s wonderful team did an enormous amount of work on our Blackfoot Digital Dictionary and Blackfoot Language Resources website and also for the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas. This year’s team promises to be just as wonderful. Working hard are SSHRC summer students Myles Shirakawa and Mahaliah Peddle and STEP summer students Blaise Russell and....
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Listen to the interview with Marie-Odile here. Find the atlas here.
Welcome to the Blackfoot Digital Dictionary project. You can find our dictionary at http://dictionary.blackfoot.atlas-ling.ca. Send comments to inge.genee@uleth.ca. This is very much a work in progress. It changes every day as we continue to make updates, corrections and addition. It is now May 8 2017 and we are getting ready to do some more work....
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