National Breath of Life
Along with our partners, the Northwest Indian Language Institute at the University of Oregon, and the Smithsonian Institution, we are proud to help organize and host the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages. A two-week biennial Institute, National Breath of Life offers North American community researchers the opportunity to gather in Washington D.C. to help "find and utilize their linguistic archival sources from archives located in the D.C. area."
The fifth National Breath of Life (BOL) Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages took place July 15-19, 2019, at Miami University in Oxford, OH.