Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS)
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS) is a non-profit entity founded in 1992 to assists California Indian communities and individuals in keeping their language alive. The Board of Directors is all native, representing all parts of California, with Leanne Hinton (University of California, Berkeley) as a consulting member of the board. AICLS believes that through the documentation of endangered languages is important, its main goal is the development of new speakers, with documentation as a stepping stone to revitalization. AICLS supports the Breath of Life Language Language Workshops and various master-apprentice language learning programs (for example, the Kawaiisu Language and Cultural Center's programs).