Indigenous Scholarship Fund Awards

About the award

Established in 2024, the Indigenous Scholarship Fund provides financial support for individuals who have a deep and personal connection to, or abiding interest in, an Indigenous community of the Americas or the American Pacific to engage in scholarship focused on the languages of those communities, including but not limited to their documentation, preservation, and revitalization. The fund may be used to provide travel grants to help offset the costs associated with presenting at the LSA Annual Meeting or other purposes that advance the scientific study of Indigenous languages, understood to be the systematic and empirical processes of observation, testing, and knowledge building of the kinds found both within the academic scientific community, and also underlying the generations of knowledge that reside within and arise from many of the traditions within Indigenous communities themselves.

In 2026, the Indigenous Scholarship Fund will be used to assist members in need of financial assistance for travel to the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting. The scholarship will be made only to applicants whose submission(s) are accepted to present in organized sessions, 20-minute talks, posters, Five-minute Linguists, LEXING and sessions that enrich the official program of the LSA Annual Meeting. Applicants may receive up to $1,200, at the discretion of the Indigenous Scholarship Fund Committee.

Selection

The LSA Indigenous Scholarship Fund Committee reviews applications and makes recommendations to the Executive Committee, which must formally approve the recommendations. The recipient will be recognized at the Awards Ceremony at the next LSA Annual Meeting in January.