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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From:
Rankin, Robert L <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>> I have not
yet checked the Kaw Nation language program website,</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>> but if the voice is a woman's, then it
is Mrs. Maude Rowe, one of the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>> last fluent speakers of Kaw and the
person with whom I did the vast</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>> majority of my recording in the mid
1970s. If the recording is of a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>> man speaking, I'm afraid it is
probably me. Sooner or later there will</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff
size=2>> be recorded material from speakers on the
website.<BR></FONT></DIV></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh, it's far worse than that, I'm afraid.
It's me! The former Kanza Language Teacher and I made this
series of recordings as part of a langauge class for
adults from a few years back. I recorded about half and the
Language Teacher did the most of the others. A few recordings may
have even come from one or more of the students. At that
time we were working on several simultaneous projects using the same list of
about 800 words, so we just decided to attach the recordings to
the word list text and post the whole thing online. It didn't work
out nearly as well as I'd hoped. But maybe that's okay, as it's not
the greatest quality product to begin with. We used a pair of upturned
headphones instead of a microphone, and recorded very long sections of text
without breaking. In some of the recordings there's
probably much more noisy breathing than intelligible speeech.
And with numerous errors in the text and a couple of missing sound
files, all I can say is that it was never intended to be the final
product. But, like so many things, it just got placed on the
backburner. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>NEVER FEAR... as Dr.
Rankin said, we are planning a full-scale revision of the tribe's language
website. When it's all done (give us a coupla years on this one), it will
be a fantastic Siouan resource, combining a vast amount of native
speaker material with full-function web accesibility... or so we
hope! We'll keep you posted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Justin McBride<BR>Language Coordinator &
Acting Webdesigner<BR>Kaw Nation of Oklahoma<BR>Drawer 50<BR>Kaw City, OK
74641<BR>PH (580) 269-2552 ext 241<BR>FX (580) 269-2204 attn Language/Web
Dev<BR>jmcbride@kawnation.com<BR></FONT><A
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