Other NALRCs
The Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) is one of four NALRCs established by grant award in 2023 to provide language resources to Alaskan Natives and Native Americans. There are two other regional NALRCS, those being the Western NALRC, headquartered in Arizona at the American Indian Language Development Institute at Arizona State University, and the Midwestern NALRC, headquartered at Little Priest Tribal College in Nebraska. The three regional centers work in conjunction with each other and in collaboration with the National NALRC, or Aanikoobijigeng, which is headquartered at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, with core partners at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University and the University of Alaska Southeast.
To learn more about the other NALRCs, please check out their information below.
National NALRC
Aanikoobijigeng, the National Native American Language Resource Center, was established through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. This initiative is a collaborative effort involving key partners and is also linked to the Regional Native American Language Resource Centers.
West NALRC
The West Regional Native American Language Resource Center (West NALRC) is building on the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)'s 40 years of success and ongoing work in support of Indigenous language efforts in communities of the West region - Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah. The West NALRC is located within AILDI and works closely with our partner institutions Tohono O'odham Community College, San Carlos Apache College, and Diné College.
The Center's purpose is to:
- Support and advocacy: for the inclusion of Native American languages in local, state and regional educational systems;
- Training and technical assistance: in implementing evidence-based pedagogical strategies, assessments, qualifications and processes for Native American language medium instruction;
- Technical assistance: to Native American Language Programs seeking other Federal resources;
- Consultation and support: for Tribal language programs in the region in implementing and sustaining effective curriculum and other language work.
Midwest NALRC
The Midwest Native Language Resource Center (MW-NALRC) is a regional hub which provides technical assistance and support to Native American language schools and programs. They are the only NALRC hosted at a tribal college.
Midwest NALRC Service areas:
- Nebraska;
- South Dakota
- North Dakota
- Wyoming
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Colorado
