The NAMA Program at the University of Arizona

📣 We're hiring! ELP is seeking a part-time Language Revitalization Mentor from North America. This role is to provide support and guidance to people in North America and around the world who are working to revitalize their languages.

This is a part-time, fully remote, paid contract position, for the period of February-December 2025. Applications will close on January 24, 2025. To learn more and apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/ELPMentor2024

Required qualifications and attributes include:

🟢 Extensive knowledge and experience in language revitalization: methods, theory, and practice
🟢 Commitment to community-led language revitalization, rather than top-down imposition of specific revitalization models, goals, or practices
🟢 Empathy, warmth, and respect; excellent interpersonal skills
🟢 Fluency or strong ability in English (our only shared working language)
🟢 Good basic technical and internet skills

Preferred qualifications and attributes include:

🟢 Member of a First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community within the Canadian state
🟢 Experience in community language planning and/or capacity-building for revitalization work
🟢 Good communicative ability in one or more additional languages of wider communication (e.g. French, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Punjabi, or others)
🟢 Training in trauma-informed work
🟢 Formal or informal training and/or education in language revitalization, linguistics, Indigenous studies, education, or related fields

We look forward to hearing from you!

Native Voices Endowment Native Voices Endowment Grants

How the effort to preserve Indigenous languages is expanding our definition of literacy Sheilah Nicholas has been working to preserve Indigenous languages for her entire career. But her exposure to it started long before her career started.

AILDI invites all in the Tucson area to attend the Ocotillo/Melhog Fence Workshop at Mission Garden. The event is on Saturday, August 31 from 8am-12pm, and is led by Maegan Lopez & David Walker.

For more details, see the flyer below.

In-coming class of NAMA students during the American Indian Language Development Institute summer institute at CoLang 2024: Institute on Collaborative Language Research

25 Years of the NAMA Program. Dr. Wilson Silva, NAMA Director, presented at CoLang 2024

Today's models talk 🎙 -- Native American Languages & Linguistics Master of Arts (NAMA): 25 Years Offering an Inclusive Pathway for Native American Scholars in Language Sciences, presented by Wilson de Lima Silva, at 1:00 - 2:00 in MU Arizona Ballroom (Room 221).

Since 1999, the Native American Languages & Linguistics Master of Arts (NAMA) program of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona has been serving Native American students interested in linguistic training, language documentation, and language revitalization. In this talk, I discuss how the NAMA program contributes to addressing the challenge of broadening the participation of Native American students in language sciences, social sciences, and STEM.

The Oneida Language Department, directed by NAMA alumna Traci Williams, was awarded the "2024 Outstanding Tribal Language Program" by the Wisconsin Indian Education Association. Congratulations to all staff in the Oneida Language Department and to its Director!

We are hiring!

Visiting Assistant Professor Duties and responsibilities include:Teach 4 courses/year, primarily in the NAMA program and in areas of Language Revitalization and Native American la...

NAMA graduates at this year’s University of Arizona Linguistics Department graduation ceremony. Congratulations Zion, Andrew and Dale!