Engaged Curriculum Grants
An Endangered and Indigenous Language Curriculum
Preserving, teaching and documenting endangered and indigenous languages in New York state
New York state is home to a number of languages with dwindling numbers of speakers, including the languages of the Haudenosaunee nations, the original inhabitants of Cornell’s land. By building a community-engaged learning curriculum on endangered and indigenous languages, this team is raising awareness about this issue and collaborating on language maintenance, revitalization and documentation. The grant project includes continued development of a community-based online project for revitalizing the Onondaga language, adding endangered languages to new and current linguistics courses, introducing student field projects and mentoring student interns working with speakers of minority languages.
The Team
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John Whitman, Department of Linguistics
College of Arts and Sciences
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Sarah Murray, Department of Linguistics
College of Arts and Sciences
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Jolene Rickard, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies; American Indian and Indigenous Studies
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; College of Arts and Sciences; College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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Kurt Jordan, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
- Community partner: Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, Inc.
- Community partner: Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.