Schools?

[Louanna Furbee]

>Henning, I'm the person most recently to have worked on Chiwere, but
>I'll be retiring Dec. 31 - still teaching, still working with grad
>students, but you might do better to consider another more
>"linguistic" department.  I'd recommend Univ. of Kansas.  Robert
>Rankin there is unsurpased as a historical linguist, specializes
>more in Dheghia, but knows about all there is to know about Chiwere
>too.  Furthermore, Ken Minor did excellent work on Ho-Chunk, and he
>is there.  Both may be retired, but they are not "retired" and could
>work with you.  Also, Jimm Good Tracks lives in Lawrence and may be
>returning to school at KU to do a degree in Indigenous Nations
>Studies (Linguistics) so he can complete his various projects on
>Chiwere, so you'd likely have a student colleague.  So, first choice
>would be KU. Second choice would be Univ. Colo-Boulder, probably.
>They've recently collected Chiwere materials for archiving, but
>neither of the students involved in that want to follow up on
>Chiwere studies specifically.  Boulder has great archives for Siouan
>languages, and a long tradition of interest in the family.  Indiana
>has the Native American Lgs center (or whatever it is called - Doug
>Parks and Ray DeMaille's operation).  They have always had students
>working on Siouan languages, and they have strong support for Native
>American scholars and good resources.  Those would be my choices, in
>that order, if I were you. All three universities have full-fledged
>Linguistics Departments also.   Good luck. Let me know what happens.
>Best, Louanna Furbee




>Greetings to all-
>
>First an introduction.  My name is Henning Garvin and I am a Senior
>in Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  I am also an
>enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation (Wisconsin Winnebago if you
>are unfamiliar with the name switch).  If you haven't guessed, my
>motives for studying linguistics are to further study our language
>and provide more documentation and literature where there is an
>apparent lack.  My main priority is to provide another tool which
>can be used to help preserve our language, with a secondary emphasis
>on adding to the vast collection of linguistic theory and knowledge
>throughout the world.
>
>I have contacted a few of you, but I thought I would ask this
>generic academic question across the board.  I am taking a year off
>to work with our Language division after graduation, but I will then
>be interested in attending graduate school.  Would you be so kind as
>to make a few reccomendations?  I am seriously looking at UC-Boulder
>and Indiana U, but I know there are other options out there.  I
>would preferably like to work with someone concentrating on
>Mississippi Valley Siouan, and if possible Chiwere, but I also
>realize that anyone with a strong background in Siouan languages or
>language documentation in general would be a tremendous asset to my
>studies.  Thank you for entertaining my questions.
>
>Henning Garvin
>Anthropology/Linguistics
>University of Wisconsin-Madison
>hhgarvin at hotmail.com
>
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