“Netniintoono” (”The Place Where We Live” is a language revitalization project at Arapahoe School that presents an Arapaho alphabet through children’s photographs of their community on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Arapaho elders and culture teachers created the alphabet by matching students’ black and white images with an Arapaho phrase, in order to use student photography to teach the Arapaho language in school. These images and phrases have been displayed in a traveling exhibit, language dictionary, on a DVD, and in jigsaw puzzles and other learning materials. More information about the project can be found in the fall 2008 issue of Mountains and Minds http://www.montana.edu/mountainsandminds/fall2008/windriver/index.html, Montana State University’s newsletter. You can also see the slideshow and video produced by the project. http://www.montana.edu/mountainsandminds/fall2008/webexclusives/windriver/index.html [posted on National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition]

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