A new three-year initiative that seeks to preserve and sustain traditional communication practices among Navajo and Lakota communities has received grant funding of $449,877 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, amid concerns over the loss of indigenous languages and cultural knowledge.
The project, “Documenting Diné and Lakota Ways of Communicating through Community-Driven, Collaborative Tribal Organization-University Partnerships,” is a collaboration between the Phoenix Indian Center, the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, and the Institute for Indigenous Knowledge within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.
