http://www.cde.ca.gov/iasa/indian.html

(From the California Department of Education)

This section of the California Department of Education website is designed to "assist educators in identifying the needs of American Indian students and providing them with high-quality educational opportunities, especially in school wide programs." This site discusses the needs of American Indian Students and what teachers of American Indians need to be aware of. The site also discusses California American Indian Education programs and what the funds for Title IX of the IASA can be used for in the Education for Native Americans. I believe there is also a link to aid in writing grants to apply for the money, too.

http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/lang.html

This site is a good first stop for research. It provides links to American Indian culture, language institutes, American Indian languages spoken at home, the history and discussion of Native American Languages, the International Journal of Linguistics which supplies information and links to language issues ie. The Native American Languages Act of 1990 and links to other Native American Language legislation.

Excerpts from 1887 reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/atkins.htm

These excerpts, part of James Crawford's webpages, show the insensitivity of our government regarding the language policies and education of Native Americans. It provides an historical framework for viewing the roots of the decline of Native American language use and, in some cases, the death of a language. Subsequently, these views and policies about Native American languages would have an impact on the decline of Native American culture and the achievement of Native American learners. This is a great site.

http://www.teleport.com/~napoleon/blackfoot/index.html

This site is linguistically oriented. A sample of the spoken Blackfoot language is available. The site gives an overview of phonetics, morphology, and morphosyntax of the language along with a bibliography for further study. This site is good for someone studying specifics of the language

(perhaps contrastive linguistics).

http://aelliot.ael.org/~eric/digests/edorc943.html

This is a digest article written by William Demmert who recounts growing up using Native American language and his losing the language because of government schools, church schools, and government mandates from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Demmert campaigns for developing a strong language and cultural base to increase Native American learner achievement in schools. He discusses the Indian Nations at Risk Task force which found that tribal priorities need to include programs which integrate language and culture. Demmert highlights conferences and recommendations for the future regarding Native American Culture. (There is a good bibliography included.)

http://www.doi.gov/bia/plan930.html#Goals, Strategies, External Factors and Measures of Success

This is the Bureau of Indian Affairs' statement of educational goals and strategies for Native American Education through the year 2002. A chart of "Measures of Success and Program Evaluations from 1997-2002" is provided. Expected statistics are given for: Dropout Rates, Attendance, Performance, Native Language Program Rates through 2002. This could be an interesting site for research. On a yearly basis, students/researchers may want to compare the projected statistics to the actual ones.

http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/micropubs/stabilize/index.html

This section of the Center's website highlights the symposium, "Stabilizing Indigenous Languages" which sought to bring together tribal educators and experts on linguistics, language renewal, and language teaching to "lay out a blueprint of policy changes and educational reforms to stabilize and revitalize American Indian and Alaskan Native languages."

This is an excellent website rich with information, and many of the presenters papers have been included.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL_Contents.html

This site highlights the symposium and detailed information is provided. A selection of papers presented at the symposium are reprinted on the web and subjects include: "Tribal - School Roles", "Teaching Students", "Teacher Education", "Curriculum Materials Development", and "Language Attitudes and Problems". The goals of the symposium were: 1. "to bring together American Indian language educators and activists to share ideas and experiences on how to effectively teach American Indian languages in and out of the classroom, 2. to provide a forum for the exchange of scholarly research on teaching American Indian languages, 3. to disseminate through a monograph recent research and thinking on best practices to promote, preserve, and protect American languages." This is an excellent website with a wealth of scholarly work regarding Native American languages.

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/Native_American.html

This site provides links to different Native American Languages including online dictionaries, teaching methodologies, descriptive grammars, and learning materials. It also is a good site for searching the history of the languages and Native American Language education. It's a good first stop for research.

-Article reprint from TESOL Quarterly

http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/tesol/tesolquarterly/describi.htm

This article addresses the importance of teachers using children*s collected works (portfolio assessment theory) as a way to better understand and assess Native American Learners whose learning styles may not be the same as "nonminority" students. This is a good article.

http://www.lsadc.org/Woodbury.html

This article on the web explains reasons for language loss and the consequences of the loss. It also describes what linguists are doing with regard to endangered languages and their preservation. It's a brief but informative article.

http://www.cup.org/Titles/59/02521591023.html

This site is the Endangered Languages Journal Website. It lists past, present, and future subjects to be covered in the journal. Articles are submitted by both linguists and nonlinguists. Journals can be purchased in a bound edition and information regarding its purchase is supplied on the web. The articles are not published online. This site is a good stop if you are looking for an article on a specific topic.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/brj.htm

This is a good article, but the statistics cover 1980-90. It discusses the crisis of language loss in the US and what causes it.

http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/USA.html

This site lists the languages used in the United States and the approximate number of speakers. The site will blow your mind if your an English Only advocate!!!

http://www.alaska.net/~bliss/mtw.html

This website is currently under construction. It highlights a documentary film about the disappearance of indigenous languages, Eyak in particular.

http://www.netaxs.com/~salvucci/ALR/ALRhome.html

The ALR series was conceived for preservation of linguistic records of Native American language reaching as far back as the 17th century (ie. Numerals from Campanius' vocabulary of Susquehannock printed in Sweden in 1696). Some of these languages are now extinct or have changed enormously over time. The Reprint Series is a great anthropologic/linguistic endeavor!

The site has links to maps of Atlantic coastal languages, numerals from Native American vocabularies, and ethnologue of Algic and Iroquoian.

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/9463/index.html

The site provides lessons, a methodology for teaching, provides areas for questions and feedback. The method emphasized is the silent way which is used in a demonstration of learning the sounds of the language. The sound (at least on the computer I was using) took some time to download the process of the demonstration took a lot of time.

http://crystal.ncc.cc.nm.us/~djm/JNE/jne.html

This website lists topics and gives synopses of articles from the Journal of Navajo Education. The journal is "dedicated to promoting community and tribal-centered education in schools that serve Navajos and other American Indians." Examples of the topics covered in the journal include: "On the Role of a Navajo Tribal Education Agency in Navajo Education" and "Semilingualism - Stereotyping the Navajo Child"

The articles are not reprinted on the web, and subsequently interested parties must subscribe to the journal for the articles. This is a good place to find articles that might be relevant to a researcher's topic.

http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/study.html

The site highlights points to consider when attempting to preserve a language. It also lists endangered languages, places to study them, and people to contact. The lists are not directly linked to places of study and people. The contact must be done "manually". The site would be much better with links.

http://nalserv.com

This is a website devoted exclusively to preparing material and training to those interested in teaching Native American languages. The site provides a strategy for cultural preservation and teaching Native American languages in grades K-12. The goal of the service is to restore the use of Native American Languages no longer spoken and to maintain the viability of those still in use.

The site provides resources and emphasizes total immersion programs for grades K-5. The site includes links to training programs, publications, grant materials, and their fees.

American Indian Education

http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/english/linglab/llp.htm

The aim of this project is to gather material about languages and cultures of North Carolina. It provides information about language differences and language change (for public and educational interests). The project hopes to use the collected information to improve educational programs regarding language and culture in the state. The project also seeks to understand the nature of language variation and how language changes. The site is very sociolinguistically based.

This site includes research on Ocracoke English, Native American Languages.

http://trc2.ucdavis.edu/ssila/about.stm

The SSILA is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of American Indian languages. The site includes links to doctoral theses on Native American Languages, Events, and Books. This site could be a good research tool for anyone doing linguistic or historical research on Native American Languages. There are also links to Research Centers/Collections/Archives, bookstores, Resources for Specific languages, Academic Departments and Programs of study, Publishers, Journals, and Organizations.

http://nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html

This site is a resource for parents who wish to find information and resources to aid them in raising bilingual children. The topics of the site include: "Myths of Bilingualism" which is very good and echoes information provided in our texts, "The Politics of Bilingualism", "Practical Help", "Special Problems of Bilingual Families", "Resources", "Stories", an excellent "Terms and Abbreviations Glossary", and "Members Websites". Overall this website is an excellent tool for parents.

http://www.ilstu.edu/~gmklass/ids189/bilingual/bilingual.html

This is an excellent site! It seems to be a required site for students of "Fields of Inquiry" at Illinois State University. It includes research on Second Language Learning, includes columns and editorials for and against bilingual education and supplies links to the Center for Equal Opportunity and Proposition 227. The goal of the class is for students to weigh the information and make their own decisions regarding the issue of bilingual education. It could also be an educational tool for anyone interested in learning more about bilingual education in terms of theory, politics, policy, promotion, and opposition.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/home2.htm

In Crawford's own words, this sites is designed to encourage discussion for language policy issues, publish updates on current developments, report on pending language legislation, illuminate research on bilingual education, update the news on the struggle against Proclamation 227, highlight links to other sources, and promote Crawford's own publications.

This is an excellent site!!!

http://lmrinet.gse.ucsb.edu/

The Institute "supports, stimulates, and co-ordinates research and professional development activities that promote the understanding and improvement of language minority students." The site is good in terms of locating abstracts on new fieldwork being done. There are links to Newsletters, Research at USC, the US Department of Education, and Professional Associations. This is good for both teachers and linguists interested in language minority students.