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<DIV>For several people who have asked me my opinion, I will just say that I hope the tribe hires a good linguist, preferably someone from the Siouan list. I am not applying for th eposition myself, but will be happy to work with whoever takes this program on. There are a lot of good people involved in the tribal language program now.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have an Osage dictionary nearing completion.and an Osage grammar at press, done over the last 20 years or so, and therefore have a lot of data soon to be available.</DIV>
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<DIV>There will be challenges, beginning with adopting an orthography, trying to get everyone to agree on one that truly represents Osage. I am traveling at the moment but back in the US on Oct. 6 and can be reached through email readily then. I will try to check email daily or every two days until then. Best of luck to all applicants. I hope several linguists will apply, the position really does need a professional.</DIV>
<DIV>Carolyn Quintero, Ph.D.<BR><BR><BR><BR><DVKLINGUIST2003@YAHOO.COM><BR>, 2003 10:30 PM<BR>To: siouan@lists.colorado.edu, "'Ling-l@ukans.edu'" <LING-L@UKANS.EDU><BR>Subject: Re: Slight correction -- Osage.<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm wondering what the qualifications would be for working on the Osage project. I'm not currently in a PhD program (although I plan to apply again for next year), but I am bursting at the seams to do research and work on a Native American language(s). I'm also interested in doing Winnebago, which John Boyle has suggested to me, but I need to find out how I can go about meeting someone in the tribe(s) to get a foot in the door, so to speak. Right now I have an MA in Linguistics from San José State in CA, and I am very interested in working with native languages. (I'm getting ready to take a Hawaiian class now after several years of studying Hawaiian off and on, and I'm also trying to do self-study of Cherokee; this is all in my spare time when not teaching Spanish or doing linguistic transcription for speech synthesis companies!)</DIV>
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<DIV>I would appreciate whatever info you or anyone else can give me regarding the Osage and Winnebago projects.</DIV>
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<DIV>(By the way, I'm told that I'm a small part Osage; this is one reason I'm particularly interested in the Osage language!)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>David Kaufman</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:dvklinguist2003@yahoo.com">dvklinguist2003@yahoo.com</A><BR><BR><B><I>"Rankin, Robert L" <rankin@ku.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I should have mentioned in my last posting that, after the 26th, the Osages will consider the internal applications they have received and only after that post the job description for an external search if need be. So it may be a bit longer than this Friday. Stay tuned.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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