Breath of Life: Revitalizing California\u27s Native Languages Through Archives

This thesis presents an oral history of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS) and its Breath of Life Workshop. Held every other year since 1996, the workshop is designed to meet the language revitalization needs of California Indian people whose languages have no living fluent speakers. Breath of Life Workshop organizers arrange visits to four archives on the University of California, Berkeley, campus and connect participants with linguistic mentors to read and interpret archival documents in their language for the purpose of bringing their language back into use. Through interviews with AICLS founders, Breath of Life Workshop participants, and University of California, Berkeley, linguists and archivists, this study uncovers the role archivists play in the Breath of Life Workshops and in the care of Native language collections more generally. Topics addressed include the selection and use of archival documents in the program and the changes to archival practice and policies that have resulted from archivists\u27 work with Breath of Life participants. The thesis also examines issues involved in the collection, arrangement, description, preservation, and access to the documentation of California Indian languages. The study concludes with recommendations for future language revitalization programs

Working with Archival Materials

Syllabus for workshop at CoLang 2016As more languages become dormant each year, there is a growing need to develop and disseminate research methods for working with archival documents. This workshop is aimed primarily toward beginning and intermediate participants who either are currently working with or intend to work with archival materials. The workshop will focus primarily on providing and developing skills to accomplish research and revitalization goals through the use of archival documents. Therefore, there will be hands on practice in class as well as regular assignments for participants. These assignments will allow students to begin working with these materials during the workshop itself, to discuss these methods with fellow participants, and to fix any potential pitfalls or obstacles during the initial stages of this process.2015 NSF/BCS 1500841: CoLang 2016: Institute on Collaborative Language Research – ALASKA Alaska Native Language Cente

Moving in the anthropocene: global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across species. Using a unique GPS-tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, we found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one-half to one-third the extent of their movements in areas with a low human footprint. We attribute this reduction to behavioral changes of individual animals and to the exclusion of species with long-range movements from areas with higher human impact. Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator-prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission

CSU-HSU-CICD Language Ownership Policies 2012

This report reviews and analyzes HSU, CSU, State, Federal, Tribal and professional policies, regulations or protocols that concern the extensive body of recordings, linguistic databases, publications and manuscripts that have been created and distributed by the Center for Indian Community Development in the course of nearly four decades

June 23: CoLang Workshop Showcase

Day One of the CoLang 2020 Web Series occurred on June 23, 2020 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time and included the following presentations and presenters: Day 1: Workshop Showcase 2:00 CoLang 2020 Directors\u27 Introduction 8:00 Announcement: University of Montana & Chief Dull Knife College to host CoLang 2022 11:30 Agenda for the Workshop Showcase Blurring the Lines 12:55 Presenter Introductions 23:25 Workshop Presentation: Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins & Susan Gehr 32:30 Q&A/comments Project Planning/Grant Writing 37:10 Presenter Introductions 38:35 (Asynchronous) Workshop Presentation: Margaret Florey and Susan Penfield 1:00:00 Q&A/comments Tech Showcase: 1:02:05 Moderator’s Introduction 1:04:05 Elan Presentation: Andrea Berez-Kroeker 1:13:00 Q&A/comments 1:20:30 Praat Presentation: Sonya Bird, Rae Anne Claxon 1:33:50 Q&A/comments 1:40:10 FLEx Presentation: Aaron Broadwell 1:55:15 Q&A/comments 2:01:10 Closing remark

Multiple Loci With Different Cancer Specificities Within the 8q24 Gene Desert

Recent studies based on genome-wide association, linkage, and admixture scan analysis have reported associations of various genetic variants in 8q24 with susceptibility to breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer. This locus lies within a 1.18-Mb region that contains no known genes but is bounded at its centromeric end by FAM84B and at its telomeric end by c-MYC, two candidate cancer susceptibility genes. To investigate the associations of specific loci within 8q24 with specific cancers, we genotyped the nine previously reported cancer-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms across the region in four case–control sets of prostate (1854 case subjects and 1894 control subjects), breast (2270 case subjects and 2280 control subjects), colorectal (2299 case subjects and 2284 control subjects), and ovarian (1975 case subjects and 3411 control subjects) cancer. Five different haplotype blocks within this gene desert were specifically associated with risks of different cancers. One block was solely associated with risk of breast cancer, three others were associated solely with the risk of prostate cancer, and a fifth was associated with the risk of prostate, colorectal, and ovarian cancer, but not breast cancer. We conclude that there are at least five separate functional variants in this region