Recently, we have been challenged with finding answers to questions: How to preserve a native language of minority culture of the stateless nation? The language that loses its speakers rapidly and, thus, making the oral, written, and artistic heritage unavailable for future generations? How to excite young generation to keep the ARTS OF mother LANGUAGE and the native HANDCRAFT alive and vibrant?

The Tatar language is among the many endangered languages that face existential challenges. The small Tatar diaspora of North America is trying to preserve the language by exciting the Tatar youth to learn, utilize and be proud of it. The Tatar Youth Scholarship has been created to generate interest in young American Tatars with any level of Tatar language proficiency to create projects that would engage the native tongue and educate the applicants and the community about the Tatar heritage. 

If you

• Find  our endeavor worth your kind support, please consider donating
• want to learn more about how and to whom the scholarship to be awarded, please read the application page
• want to get to know the Tatar language, take a summer course at Arizona State University or sign up for online class at Alima Academy
• want to discover unique shchitekler or so-called Tatar Boots, please explore this website  

If you wonder why it is essential to keep ancestral languages in use, then read the article by Brian McDermott, where he talks about Language Healers and the value of a heritage language as the most critical marker of the health of a community.