E-mail-A-Friend: Indian languages meeting focus

[Marino]

Jimm -

This is wonderful news about the grant you applied for.  Congratulations, 
and best wishes for progress in your work! I may be asking you for lexical 
material one of these days, since I seem to have signed up for a 
comparative paper on word formation.

Mary


At 10:46 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote:
>Randy:
>Thanks for the news article, which I have E'd to some Baxoje, 
>Jiwere~Ñut^achi.  Indeed, Thank You very much and with heartfelt 
>appreciation.  It seems seems these simple words are such a small return 
>to you for everything in regard to the facilitation of the conference that 
>included economy dorm apts, meals, city directions, evening cafes, copys 
>of papers and guest speakers.  No doubt, everyone should be home 
>recuperating by now, and reviewing their return to daily routine.  I'll 
>look for opportunity to allow to the reading and review of so many 
>interesting papers.
>I cannot recall a conference of such shared fellowship, support and with 
>so many interesting discussions on language and comparative issues.  I 
>look forward to the draft of John's paper on Pronouns, which was tempting 
>to stay for, but I know now my decision to opt out towards the 20hr drive 
>home was the better decision.  Granddaughter drove 3.5hrs and with a box 
>of Nodoz and an answered prayer, we got back home in one 
>piece.  Hintagwaiñe was marked with sinje shuje from being strapped in his 
>car seat so long.  The drive home was the low point of the trip, as the 
>literal high of our ten days was the awesome and scary Beartooth trail 
>above timberline and the clouds - NEVER that route again!
>
>I'll get Bob's verb reference examples to him and John's complex sentence 
>examples as I'm able to look them up.  I forgot to get the IOM CD's to 
>Johannes.  I've learned I must act when I think of something, or I fail to 
>do it.  If he will send me an address to his location in Wisconsin or 
>wherever, I package them for shipment.
>For those who were unable to make the conference, it will be a loss which 
>may be be lightened by accessing the presented papers when possible and 
>available, or talking with one of us participants.
>.
>Upon my return, there was mail from D.C., notifying that the grant applied 
>for will be funded.  Apparently, I would have known the decision before 
>leaving except that Fast Lane did not notify the agency of my E-address 
>change as they said, and the actual grant notice letter to my name was 
>sent to the tribe's address.  I do not live there in the tribal 
>offices.  So this is tremendously great news.  The project will begin 
>officially in October, when they work out bookkeeping with the tribe.
>There is more, for my cup runneth over, but enough for the moment.
>I thank each of you fellow participants for the special persons you are, 
>the kindness to my grandchildren and the blessing you extend to the Native 
>communities (weather they can appreciate it now or latter, as everyone's 
>enlightenment continues).
>NawoPi uramañi taho ...(Vayan con Dios)
>Jimm
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: <rgraczyk at aol.com>
>To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:47 PM
>Subject: E-mail-A-Friend: Indian languages meeting focus
>
>
>
>>Comment:
>>This is the article on the SCLC that appeared in the Billings Gazette.
>>Randy
>>---
>>
>>Story:
>>Indian languages meeting focus
>>
>>Language is so bound up in culture that the loss of American Indian 
>>languages is a loss of an important part of their speakers' identities.
>>
>>Linguists working to preserve the Siouan family of Indian languages will 
>>meet in Billings on the Rocky Mountain College campus Friday through Sunday.
>>
>>For more of this story, click on or type the URL below:
>>
>>http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/16/news/local/55-language.txt