Community Collaborations: Best practices for North American Indigenous language documentation

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Tucker, Benjamin V.
  • Penfield, Susan D.
  • Hill, Johnny Jr.
  • Vasquez, Nora
  • Serratos, Angelina
  • Harper, Gilford
  • Flores, Amelia

• This article describes a collaborative project for language documentation involving the North American indigenous languages of Mohave and Chemehuevi. We define the essential elements of field methods and of project design while proposing a basic model for collaborative community-based projects in language documentation. Our recommendations apply to community-based projects in North American indigenous communities; however, we anticipate that they will be extendable worldwide to others working in the field of language documentation.

• Date created

  2008

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Southern Paiute language
  • Mohawk language
  • Language revival
  • Chemehuevi Southern Paiute dialect
  • Linguistic fieldwork

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3WP9T906

• License

  © Walter de Gruyter