colorado lakota project

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Trechter, Sara wrote:
> I just received the latest SSILA e-bulletin, and someone is announcing that
> the colorado lakota project now has email....however, there is no
> explanation of what that project is.  One of you has to know.?

Sara:

The CLP exists today mainly to distribute the Colorado Lakhota Project
Lakhota study materials, for which there is a small, steady market.  In
addition David Rood has some students who are interested in Lakota, but I
don't think they're necessarily incorporated under this rubric. 

For those of you who don't know it, David Rood is in Europe, lecturing on
Native American languages generally (survey of the Western Hemisphere?)
and Wichita specifically, and generally having a high old time, albeit
eying the Rhine (?) somewhat askance at the moment.  It sounds a bit like
Christopher Robin and Pooh, the part of Pooh being played by Jenny.  David
can be reached by email at his Colorado address via the wonders of
.forward files.  

And, the Plains Center, officially CeSNaLPS (Center for the Study of the
Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest, i.e., all areas tangent to
Colorado, even if the Basin isn't mentioned), having survived a year of
subterranean exile by banks of INyaN Wakpala, is now perched in an
enormous attic office in the Old Geology Building, slightly above and west
of the rest of the University of Colorado Department of Linguistics.  The
staff for the nonce consists primarily of a family of raccoons, hopefully
confined to the crawl space. The library is shelved and better organized
(by David this time) than it has been in years.  The human staff are
looking forward uneasily to the next move, anticipated in a year or two's
time.