To provide audiotapes and videos of current language speakers. To utilize current speakers as part of the process of teaching and learning the language. To teach those who are interested in the language. A University of Kansas linguist has helped program personnel develop a pronunciation key, pictionary, workbook, and tapes. Program personnel utilize these along with native speakers to teach the language, making every effort to meet every other week to teach.
Participants now range in age from young adults to elders.
Shawnee children are also allowed to participate as long as they are members of the Shawnee tribe. Pronunciation key, pictionary, workbook, and audiotapes of fluent speakers in conversation and saying single words. The Shawnee Language Preservation Project has received help from a University of Kansas linguist, tribal government leaders, fluent native speakers, and volunteers. Both now and in the past, financial support has come from the tribe, from the personal funds of program personnel, and a Cherokee Nation grant.