Abstract

eTewa Language Project CD-ROM was developed at the University of Washington for San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, as part of the Pueblo's aim to restore the use of spoken Tewa in everyday life and in3 crease proficiency in written Tewa at all community levels.2 The CDROM contains interactive language learning applications that are derived from databases that preserve and facilitate access to language materials. Included in the databases are linguistic resources collected in the early 1900s and the 1960s and 1970s, as well as archival and contemporary songs, stories, photographs, land and water data, and other 3 45 materials. The CD-ROM also represents the first of several steps in repatriation of intellectual property to the San Juan Pueblo. Our project is intended to preserve, restore to use, and repatriate cultural capital, but in all this we are working to assure Tewa cultural production in a way that encourages young people to engage in language production (in the form, for example, of stories, songs, and poems). The next

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