![]() NAL partners with the Sam Noble Museum, the Department of Native American Studies and the OU Native Nations Center to host the annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair. This unique event attracts over 1,000 students from pre-K to 12 th grades who are learning their Native languages. In 2017, the Fair was awarded the University Museums and Collections Award from the International Council of Museums, which is a reflection of the impact the program has had on our Native community over the past 17 years. ![]() NAL supports to the local community by providing audio/video recording services and free digitization of cassettes, reel-to-reels, miniDV tapes, Hi-8 tapes, vinyl records, and VHSs for media that contains Native languages. The Native American Languages collection (NAL) at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is an archival repository for materials in and pertaining to the Indigenous languages of the Americas, with a specialization in the Indigenous languages of the central United States. The collection currently contains over 8,500 items representing 315 languages, with another ~800 languages represented in the reference collection. The collection itself consists of a climate-controlled archival space, a digitization lab, a recording studio, a reading room, and a reference library with supplementary materials on Native American languages, linguistics, archaeology, and ethnology. NAL is also a backup repository for a number of tribal archives in Oklahoma, and the department actively participates in a wide variety of collaborative projects with Native communities. Together, we represent and embrace the complexity, vibrancy, and diversity that is Indian Country. Together, we are committed to providing a deeper understanding of the unique political status of tribes and to examining contemporary tribal issues, as well as tribal cultures and histories. Together, we are committed to using distinctly Indigenous perspectives to place the sovereignty of Native nations and the cultures of Native peoples at the center of academic study and community-engaged research. We hold many divergent philosophies and perspectives, and we welcome the vigorous and collegial debate of those perspectives. Our complexions vary our gender expressions and identities vary. Some engage in traditional religious practices others do not. Some are fluent speakers of our Native languages others are not. Some among us are tribally enrolled citizens others are not. We are citizens of dozens of tribal political entities and are related through kinship and cultural practice to many, many more indigenous communities. We represent federally recognized tribes, state-recognized tribes, and unrecognized tribes. Our faculty, staff, students, and alumni are both Native and non-Native. And significantly, we are representative of that diversity. The University of Oklahoma Department of Native American Studies recognizes the complexity and diversity of Indian Country. The Department of Native American Studies-one of the leading such programs in the nation-attracts and serves students of diverse backgrounds and academic interests who are committed to using distinctly Native American perspectives to place the sovereignty of Native nations and the cultures of Native peoples at the center of academic study. Laura Harjo, Ph.D., Interim Department Chair College of Professional and Continuing Studies.Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts.College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences.Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work.Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy Native American Studies, Graduate Certificate.Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology.David and Judi Proctor Department of Mathematics.School of Library and Information Studies.Schusterman Program in Judaic and Israel Studies.Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.Department of Health and Exercise Science.Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.Clara Luper Department of African and African-American Studies.College of Arts and Sciences Administrated Programs.Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences.Academic Majors - Undergraduate and Graduate.
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