The Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA) in
Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the po ...
, is an extensive repository for manuscripts and recordings documenting the
Native Languages of Alaska. The Archive was created as part of the
Alaska Native Language Center
The Alaska Native Language Center, established in 1972 in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a research center focusing on the research and documentation of the Native languages of Alaska. It publishes grammars, dictionaries, folklore collections and research m ...
by state legislation in 1972. In 2009 the Archive was administratively separated and now exists as a sister organization to the Alaska Native Language Center, collaborating on numerous language efforts in Alaska.
ANLA is part of the Alaska & Polar Regions Special Collections and Archives at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for cla ...
Rasmuson Library. It was officially renamed in honor of
Michael E. Krauss at a dedication ceremony on February 22, 2013. ANLA is a member of the
Open Language Archives Community
OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an initiative to create a unified means of searching online databases of language resources for linguistic research. The information about resources is stored in XML format for easy searching. OLAC wa ...
and the
Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archiving Network
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Dr.
Siri Tuttle
Siri Tuttle is the former director of the Alaska Native Language Center, the Alaska Native Language Archive, and a former Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She specializes in Dene (Athabascan) languages ...
was appointed Director of ANLA in 2016.
[University of Alaska Fairbanks press release, July 21, 2016. https://news.uaf.edu/tuttle-named-alaska-native-language-archive-director/]
See also
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Alaska Native Language Center
The Alaska Native Language Center, established in 1972 in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a research center focusing on the research and documentation of the Native languages of Alaska. It publishes grammars, dictionaries, folklore collections and research m ...
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Alaska Native languages
Alaska Natives are a group of indigenous people that live in the state of Alaska and trace their heritage back to the last two great migrations that occurred thousands of years ago. The Native community can be separated into six large tribes and ...
References
External links
Alaska Native Language ArchiveDigital Endangered Languages and Musics Archiving Network (DELAMAN)
Alaska Native culture in Fairbanks
Linguistic research institutes
Indigenous languages of Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Archives in the United States
1972 establishments in Alaska
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