[Libs-Or] Fwd: [UWMOSAIC] Oregon Native language institute marks 25th anniversary, gets new funding

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From: Anselmo Villanueva <anselmo.villanueva at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 11:40 AM
Subject: [UWMOSAIC] Oregon Native language institute marks 25th
anniversary, gets new funding
To: <uwmosaic at u.washington.edu>


*Oregon Native language institute marks 25th anniversary, gets new funding*

By McKayla Lee (Underscore News)  August 8, 2022  OPB

*Link to article and photos:*

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/07/oregon-native-language-institute-marks-25th-anniversary-gets-new-funding/

*Website:* https://nili.uoregon.edu/

*Staff:* https://nili.uoregon.edu/about/staff/

*Acting Director:*  Robert Elliott  robert at uoregon.edu

*Contact: *

Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI)
1629 Moss Street
Eugene, Oregon 97403
541.346.0730
nwili at uoregon@edu

*Mission*

NILI supports and strengthens language preservation and revitalization
efforts.  With tribal, academic and community partners, NILI establishes
 collaborative, on-going projects which meet the specific needs and desires
of each language community. Integral to NILI are teacher training,
curriculum development, language documentation and appropriate uses in
technology. NILI provides outreach services on issues of language
endangerment and advocates for language revitalization issues.

*The Founding of NILI*

The Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI) was created at the
University of Oregon (UO) in 1997 as an answer to Oregon, Washington and
Idaho tribal requests for Native language teacher training. Ichishkíin
language teachers from Warm Springs and the Yakama Nation who had attended
the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) were inspired to
develop their own institute to address specifically the needs of their
critically endangered Pacific Northwest language communities, which began
summer 1998. Since then, NILI has become a year-round program serving
Native language communities locally, nationally and internationally.

*NILI Today*

NILI serves the University of Oregon, the Northwest and tribal communities
nationwide. It works with tribal partners in many areas including
curriculum design, distance learning and materials development while
simultaneously meeting the articulated needs of tribal communities. NILI is
among a handful of programs that plays a role in attracting, retaining and
educating indigenous students at UO. NILI is an established program that
directly supports indigenous students and their communities. It meets
multiple UO goals. It supports: 1) graduate and undergraduate education; 2)
diversity; and 3) external relationships with tribal communities.
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