As a physical and digital hub of research activity, AISRI is a center for scholars on the IU Bloomington campus and in Native American and Indigenous communities that prepares the next generation of scholars through education and mentorship. In partnership with collaborating nations, we advance knowledge and understanding through print and digital resources that are vital to current and future efforts to sustain and revitalize Native American and Indigenous languages and cultures. AISRI’s Center for the Documentation of Endangered Languages (CDEL) is central to such work.

We aspire to continue AISRI’s present collaborative partnerships with several Great Plains tribes, institutions, and individuals from diverse nations, while expanding the number and geographic scope and depth of our partnerships. As the Bloomington campus sits on the homelands of the Bodwéwadmik (Potawatomi), Lënape (Delaware), myaamiki (Miami), and saawanwaki (Shawnee) peoples, AISRI will devote special attention to and resources toward creating additional collaborations with nations who wish to work with us to support their research interests and needs.

As it has with its Great Plains partners, AISRI will actively seek to produce and share resources for language and culture revitalization, opportunities for research cross training and education, and an organizational structure for coordinating research activities. Our products include: monographs, research articles, biographies, histories, stories, ethnographic and linguistic fieldnotes, audio and visual recordings, dictionaries, grammars, language curricula and instructional materials, and language planning documents.

We aim to expand AISRI’s research activity to include not only language, culture, and history, but also current topics of particular interest to contemporary Native American and Indigenous people and their allies, such as:

• health and wellness
• environmental sustainability and justice
• food security and sovereignty
• housing
• community and economic development
• land rights
• legal justice
• social justice
• education

With your gift, you are championing our mission to build the community of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and students at IUB, and partner with them and with Native American and Indigenous people not yet affiliated with AISRI in a mutually supportive community designed to bring about lasting good for all of those involved in, and affected by, our research. Thank you!

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