Fort Sill Apache Tribe

The Fort Sill Apache Tribe will expand and enhance the Ndé Bizaa Nahizaa (“Apache Language, Our Language”), a community-based teaching text, to assist tribal members with language learning. Project activities will include restoring audio recordings to pair with the text as examples of language pronunciation. The tribe will train a support team in the proper methods for digitizing and cataloging audio material. It also will pursue strategic institutional partnerships for long-term storage of original recordings. The project will benefit more than 800 enrolled tribal members by providing them with insight into their cultural heritage.