Little Big Horn College, a tribal college on the Crow Reservation, in partnership with the Crow Language Consortium, will…
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In March, Humanities Montana put out a SHARP Grantee Spotlight article featuring the Crow Language Consortium. We gave a…
The Crow Language Consortium, a collective of Crow schools, colleges and educators working to preserve Apsáalooke (the Crow language), received $10,000 to assist…
I am Jacob, I am an 18-year-old Crow man from Montana. I’ve spent the last 4 weeks at the Crow…
SHERIDAN — Board games, picture books, flashcards and posters — all of these things are now available to Crow…
The Crow Summer Institute is occurring in Crow Agency, Montana, at the Little Big Horn College starting June 3rd…
Like most tribal communities in North America, the Crow Tribe in Montana faces challenges in keeping its indigenous language…
Four tribal college presidents say their institutions are trying new methods to preserve — maybe even expand — the number of people who can read, write or speak their tribal language…As part of its 2018 summertime language institute, Little Big Horn College decided to compile an Apsáalooke dictionary. Yarlott said he hoped they’d gather definitions for 10,000 words. Instead, they came up with nearly 14,000. (Source: Billings Gazette)
The Crow Language Consortium hoped to document 10,000 words at a recent 10-day session specifically for collecting words from fluent speakers. They ended up with 15,000. The words will go into an online and print dictionary. We’ll learn more about how various tribes are working to write down their languages. (Source: Native America Calling)