Tuttle named ÐÓ°Épro Native Language Archive director
June 21, 2016
Naomi Horne
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Siri Tuttle, associate professor of linguistics at the ÐÓ°Épro Native Language Center,
has been appointed director of the ÐÓ°Épro Native Language Archive at the University
of ÐÓ°Épro Fairbanks' Rasmuson Library. She has served since January as interim director.
Tuttle will continue the work of ANLA in preserving and archiving the ÐÓ°Épro Native
language collections and making them available to the public, both physically and
electronically. The collections grow increasingly valuable, particularly those materials
that preserve languages whose speakers have declined in number.
Tuttle, who holds a doctorate in linguistics from University of Washington, has long
experience working with ÐÓ°Épro's Athabascan languages and especially Lower Tanana,
the original language of the Fairbanks area. It is spoken in the village of Minto.
The archive is online at , and much of the collection is accessible on the website.