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BISMARCK, ND (AP) – The Fort Berthold Indian Reservation Tribal College and the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks are working together on a project to digitally preserve the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara language and culture.
The schools will use a $ 500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the initiative, which includes a separate effort to stimulate the study of American Indian history in the Dakotas.
Professors and students at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College in New Town will conduct oral interviews with elders from the three affiliated tribes, then catalog, preserve and digitize what officials consider to be “critically endangered” language resources and other knowledge. traditional at risk. The UND team will contribute to the digital collection.
Together, the schools will create educational resources for the new Kindergarten to Grade 12 Native American History curriculum and as part of a special tribal campus program, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
Earlier this year, the North Dakota Legislature approved a bill requiring primary education to focus on federally recognized Indian tribes: the three affiliated tribes, the Standing Rock Sioux, Spirit Lake Nation, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. Nation.
The Standing Rock and Sisseton Wahpeton reserves both extend as far as South Dakota.
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