Native linguists

[Haley De Korne]

Hello,
  From Michigan:
  Kenny Neganigwanwe Pheasant (originally from Wikwemikong First Nation) is an amazing resource for Northern Michigan Anishinaabe language learners.  He's created a website www.anishinaabemdaa.com, several cdroms, runs a summer language camp, and drives great distances teaching in his own interactive style.
  Helen Roy, also originally from Wikwemikong, teaches 'Ojibwe'/ Anishinaabemowin at Michigan State University, participates in countless other language events, and has created several music CDs of popular songs sung in Anishinaabemowin with her group 'Diiva miinwa Davis'.
  To name a few... This could be a long list!!!
  Regards,
  Haley De Korne

Susan Penfield <susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
    Thanks for this, David..
   
  Phil and I have had this discussion often and the term "community intellectuals' sometimes surfaces --
   
  While I realize your list will focus on currently practicing folks, I would like to acknowledge someone who passed away a few years ago but whose knowledge and contribution still are valuable to the Mohave language community: Leona Little. 
  Leona was an elder I worked with for some time and was the first - perhaps only- person to develop full literacy in Mohave and began, of her own intiative, to do full translations and transcriptions of traditional stories. There are others currently working in this direction and following her example (including two of her daughters who are just recently getting really interested in working with their heritage language). 
   
  Please add Amelia Flores  (Mohave, enrolled at Colorado River Indian Tribes where she is the tribal librarian and archivist)to your list. Amelia is finishing her MA in Native American languages at the U of Arizona and is developing a community-friendly grammar of Mohave as part of her work. As well, she is teaching classes in Mohave and developing a carefully staged curriculum for the language. Seems like she might bridge the criteria for both lists! 
   
  Best,
  Susan

 
  On 10/30/07, David Lewis <David.Lewis at grandronde.org> wrote:   I feel that the current structure of the native linguist lists ignores
the incredible contribution of natives without advanced degrees. In 
native society, within the Native worldview these are for many the true
linguists and those who carry power within their society. I understand
the concept of the list but if this is about native people how is it 
possible to ignore the native worldview. If this list will not create
that parallel with the higher degree holders, then I will create that
list.

Please send me your lists of native people who are linguists within 
their communities, they do not have to hold a degree from a university
but must be working with the linguistic field, and considered a leader.
Please also send me more information about them, what languages the work 
on and where they work, what tribe they are a member of, etc.
Thank you,

David G. Lewis
Manager, Cultural Resources Department
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Office 503.879.1634
David.Lewis at grandronde.org
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>I just came across another native linguist!
> 
>Dale Old Horn (Crow)
>1974. Some Complement Constructions of the Crow Indian Language
>M.S. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Got him. My current list is at: http://ydli.org/NativeLinguists.html
Anyone with additional information (including gaps in the info on
people already on the list) please let me know.

Bill




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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.

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