Digital Library Projects at theAmerican Indian Studies Research Institute

Raymond J. DeMallie, Director — Douglas R.Parks, Associate Director

Wallace Hooper, Director of Software Development

Digital Library Collaborations at AISRI

• Plains Indian Languages Consortium — professional linguists with related research interests seeking to provide data and resources over the web

• Dakota Indian Foundation — Digital Archives Project. The Ella DeLoria Papers.

• Lakota Language Consortium — Development of curriculum and instructional materials for use in Lakota school districts under the sponsorship of the Oglala Nation Education Consortium.

Lakota Language Consortium Schools

Mission of AISRI

• Anthropology, linguistics and ethnohistory of the North American Plains Indians

• Language documentation — concentrations in Siouan and Caddoan languages

• Language stabilization and revitalization

• Development of useful computer applications and resources

Publication Programs• Studies in the

Anthropology of North American Indians — 24 titles

• Sources of American Indian Oral Literature —7 titles

• Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians, Plains Volume

• Anthropological Linguistics, quarterly journal

State of Native American Languages—Case of Lakota

Language Documentation

• Elicitation of lexical data for the construction of reference dictionaries

• Collection of texts, oral literature, and use of historical linguistic sources

• Establishment of sound archives — AISRI’s Center for the Documentation of Endangered Languages

Indiana Dictionary Database Processor

IDD Browse Screen

IDD Entry Screen

IDD Gloss Screen

Annotated Text Processor

Language Instruction

• Traditional pedagogical model: certified teacher team-teaching with a tribal elder

• Use of computer-based instructional aids

• Teacher training

• Immersion

Arikira Lessons—Sample Dictation Exercise Page

Arikara Lessons—Sample Sentence Patterns Exercise

Arikara Lesson—Cultural Lessons

Preparing Digital Library Materials: Data modeling in the Indiana Text Lab

TextLab Model for an IDD Dictionary

TextLab Model for a Grammar