Native linguists

[Richard Smith]

Kweh folks
there are many of us doing what we can, in our native communities
and of course appreciate some recognition and encouragement
but, speaking for myself ,
I don't know if it's necessary to make another list!
hey, social anthropologists:
where did all this list making come from?
haha!

Richard Zane Smith
(Söhahiyöh, of the bear clan)
Wyandotte Oklahoma


On 10/31/07 12:26 AM, "Derksen Jacob" <jieikobu at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Thanks for putting this forth.
> I constantly rail at the idea of university's so-called formal education being
> somehow superior to lived experience. The idea of a "formal education" is a
> social construct and an extremely class-based - and culturally biased! - one
> at that. (Don't get me wrong, though; some of my best friends have PhD's...)
> That said, I wonder if Earl Claxton, Sr., John Elliott and his late father,
> David Elliott (Sencoten), and Dr. Burt McKay (Nisga'a) are on the list.
> Best,
> Jacob
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