Saturday, January 14, 2017

Welcome!

If you're reading this, it's likely to be because you are enrolled in LING/AIS210, 'American Indian Languages', at the University of Arizona.  And if you're enrolled for Honors credit, you'll become a contributor to this blog.  You may even have an invitation waiting in your inbox (at your official UA email address). 

I'll be working with you to develop content for this blog which I hope will be interesting, fun and engaging for you - and helpful to your peers in our course.

And I thought I might start us off by directing you to this article, which was recently the subject of discussion on a listserv of academic and community scholars who work on issues related to Native American languages:

When Language is More than Words

At the end of the article is a link to this interview with Professor Treuer:

Read through the article, and listen to the interview - and then, if you wish, you can compose a response in a post of your own. You can collaborate with any of your peers to create a post, or create one on your own.

As we think about this, I'll also be sharing with you some of the responses to the piece that came from various participants on the listserv.  But for now, if you feel inspired to do so, I'd love to hear your response.