CURA Grant Announcement

L-R: MP Phil McColeman. Co-Investigators Carrie Dyck, Amos Keye, Barb Brant,
Seated: Lottie Keye, Master Speaker

The C.O.O.L Project (Cayuga: Our Oral Legacy) received a grant from CURA (Community-University Research Alliance) in the amount of $1Million to study and conduct research in the Cayuga Language. The duration of the grant is from 2011-2015. On hand to accept were: Carrie Dyck  Primary Investigator and Amos Key, Co-Investigator. This creates a unique research alliance between the Woodland Cultural Centre and Memorial University of Newfoundland. CURA is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities       Research Council of Canada,   grant #833-2009-1001.

        The main goals of  COOL are:

•          to increase the number of speakers of Gayogo̲ho:nǫ⁷
•         to increase fluency levels
•         to hear Gayogo̲ho:nǫ⁷ spoken everywhere in the Six Nations community
•         to demonstrate how knowing Gayogo̲ho:nǫ⁷ promotes spiritual, emotional, and academic intelligence
•          to engage in public education and advocacy about minority language education, bilingualism, an bilingual education
•        to promote a change in public attitudes and policies about First Nations languages