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Item Twenty-five strong: the current state and potential future of Ararahih (the Karuk language)(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2024) Barney, Tanner Scot; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Matthew HermanResearch on various language apps, app building, language learning, Indigenous methodologies, and American Indian law and policy has made for a sound argument to kickstart the support of a Karuk dictionary app, eventual language learning app, and Karuk data sovereignty. The purpose of this work is to take in the broad academic discussion to think critically about it and build upon it in order to determine an Indigenous methodology for language apps and raise up Karuk community language regeneration efforts. In this paper, the themes addressed include Indigenous methodologies, the influence of language in life, legal implications for Native American Tribes in the United States wishing to practice data sovereignty, developing themes in Indigenous Methodologies for language apps, discussion on both Tribal and Western language apps, and app construction. To ensure wide reception, this work is written with the intention of being discussed by Karuk scholars and community members, and the broader academic and general audience of both Native and non-Native backgrounds.Item The current state of Diné bizaad(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2016) Pearson, Fox Chancellor; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Matthew HermanDiné Bizaad, also known as the Navajo language, is the most common Native American language in the United States. In his research for this thesis, Fox Chancellor Pearson seeks to ascertain for himself the current state of Diné Bizaad. Pearson combines his own observations, living and working both on and bordering the Navajo Nation, with input gathered during interviews with Diné people from diverse walks-of-life. Pearson concludes that Diné Bizaad is still alive and well among Diné elders, but it is in rapid decline among the younger generation.Item Sounds from the heart : Native American language and song(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2011) Marcus, Diveena Seshetta; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Matthew HermanOur world is witnessing the rapid extinction of indigenous cultures through colonization. This thesis is presented not to amplify decolonization but to honor the value and meaning of the oral society and its indigenous peoples through their culture's traditional and necessary components of language and song. The basis of this thesis pertains to the author's tribal relatives, the Coast Miwok original people of California known as Tamal Michchawmu which literally translates as the People of the West Coast. The author chooses to use this work as an advocacy for the worldview of indigenous peoples, particularly to matriarchal societies in which the Tamal Michchawmu are included. In this thesis, stories and interviews with scholars and with Native Americans studying their language and singing their songs as well as the author's personal experiences are included as support to the theory that language and song are formed from the foundation of a philosophy that is grounded within a peoples relationship with the land. My thesis question is: If this worldview is resurrected, how can it contribute to its indigenous people in a modern society?