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CAIL Partnerships
The Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL) and Smithsonian Institution established a partnership December 1, 2004, a working intellectual collaboration between CAIL and the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian. It was created to support pedagogical initiatives, student internships, publication collaboration, archiving of original fieldwork materials on endangered languages and joint sponsorship of conferences on endangered American Indian languages. CAIL and Smithsonian jointly sponsor the annual Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA), and jointly administer the publications series, Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages (SUPAIL), edited by Lyle Campbell and Ives Goddard, published by the University of Utah Press.
Other accords are in the process of being finalized, which will establish similar relationships between CAIL and some universities and government ministries in Mexico and Brazil (to be announced here when complete).