Dedicated to Helping Native Peoples of the Americas
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Native American/First Nations peoples learning and revitalizing their languages were invited to apply to attend the Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages in Washington, D.C. June 13-24. Participants teams (40 learners, teachers, activists) paired with mentors (20 linguistics experts) to explore the language resources in archives in the DC area, (particularly the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Anthropological Archive); 
attended morning workshops on linguistics, archival research and language revitalization at NMAI, and other lectures and workshops on linguistics, language teaching and learning. Sponsors: Endangered Languages Fund National Anthropological Archives National Museum of the American Indian Library of Congress.
