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Thank you for your interest in Thornton Media, Inc., the only language tool company in the world devoted specifically to Native Languages. We strive to bring you the most advanced and useful technologies foryour language needs.

The revolutionary Phraselator® LC™ will generate tremendous excitement in your community for language revitalization. Join the 75+ tribes who are using Phraselator® LC™ to bring their languages back to life.
Take control of your language future and contact us today!

 

 

Thornton Media, Inc.

Email: info@ndnlanguage.com

Phone: 1877 NDN TOOL (636-8665)
Fax:.440.809.9420
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 965, Banning CA 92220 - USA

CEO Profile
Don Thornton (Cherokee) is a filmmaker in Southern California who formed Thornton Media, Inc. in 1996 to create positive images of American Indians. He is a former journalist (NAJA Member), cameraman, producer and grantwriter. Don worked in social services in the Los Angeles American Indian community for 15 years. He created the cutting-edge American Indian Clubhouse in Los Angeles from 1996 - 99, an after-school program for Indian kids in LA (the largest urban Indian population in the country) which the National Indian Review referred to as a "bright shining light in urban Indian Country"
President of TMI and NDNTV
Don Thornton (Cherokee from Oklahoma)
Click here to email Don

Kar Thornton (Kara) is a presidential scholar from the University of Southern California. She graduated from the Annenberg School for Communication and came from Singapore. She's incharge of all the marketing, PR, computer programming for the company, and speaks three languages fluently.

VP, Director of Marketing and PR
Kara Thornton

Cell: 818.284.1707
Click here to email Kara

TMI's Language Consultants:

Terry Brockie is Gros Ventre from Montana. He teaches his language, White Clay to schools in his surrounding areas and has been using Phraselator LC for three years. His expertise is working with his tribe's elders to record their language into Phraselator LC. He taught an 80 year old elder to program his language using the phraselator LC on his own.

Click here to email Terry

Keith Weaselhead is Blackfoot (Kainai) from Alberta, Canada. He attended boarding school when he was five, after he left he relearned his language and is now fluent. He teaches Blackfoot to his immersion students (3rd graders). His expertise is getting his 3rd graders to use the Phraselator LC software to record. He has been using this method for more than 2 years.

Click here to email Keith

Pamela Atcitty is full-blood Navajo born and raised in the greater Los Angeles area.  She graduated from California State University, Northridge with a major in Geography and Minor in Native American Studies.  She also received her Single Subject Teaching Credential with CLAD (Crosscultural, Language Acquisition Developement) Certifications and teaches US and World History in Riverside County, California.  Pamela also help founded Red Nations Womens' Fastpitch Softball Club, an organization that helps mentor the native communities through education, health and the sport of softball.

Click here to email Pam


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