Committee on Indigenous Languages and their Sustainability (COILS)

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Activities

COILS regularly addresses methodology and ethics by planning and co-sponsoring events at the LSA’s Annual Meeting:

• Symposium on the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032 [2023]
• Pedagogical Concerns in Language Reclamation (Workshop) [2021]
• Natives4Linguistics 2018 – Sharing Our Findings (Symposium) [2019, co-sponsored with SSILA]
• International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL) Kickoff Celebration [2019, co-sponsored with SSILA]
• Community-based Language Research across the Americas (CBLRAA) (Workshop) [2019, co-sponsored with SSILA]
• Documenting Multilingualism [2019, co-sponsored with SSILA]
• Sharing Our Views; Native Americans Speak About Language and Linguistics (Symposium) [2018, co-sponsored with SSILA]
• Endangered Languages in the Undergraduate Curriculum (Symposium and Poster Session) [2017, co-sponsored with Linguistics in Higher Education Committee]
• LSA Awarded Grant on Building Capacity in Linguistics and Endangered Languages at Tribal Colleges and Universities (Workshop) [2016, Advisory Committee]
• Documenting Variation in Endangered Languages (Symposium) [2016]
• Utilization of language archives in endangered language research, revitalization, and documentation (Symposium) [2015]

Symposia and education activities from prior years are preserved in the LSA web archive. Contact LSA secretariat for access.