<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The omission of Ofo and various other languages of the Southeast is only one of several weaknesses in Native Languages of the Southeastern United States that I note in a forthcoming review in Anthropological Linguistics. Heather and Janine tried their best to be inclusive of all of the languages of the Southeast, but for a variety reasons individuals who were asked to contribute sketches of other languages did not produce. I am guilty, for example, of not producing a sketch of Catawba for the book. I passed on their request to Frank Siebert who was unable to pull himself away from his Penobscot research often enough to complete the sketch.<BR>
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Speaking of Catawba, Bob informed me of the SCLC workshop several months ago and asked me to attend to comment where appropriate on similarities and differences between Siouan and Catawba grammar. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the workshop. I have been invited to the summer picnic and field-days of the Tuscarora Indian Nation to receive a community service award during the first week of July, and I cannot afford to go both to Montana and New York back-to-back. On the good news side of things, the draft of my grammar of Catawba is under review by the University of South Carolina press and I have been promised an answer by the end of July as to whether the press will publish it.<BR>
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I hope the SCLC and the workshop go well.<BR>
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Blair <BR>
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