E-mail-A-Friend: Indian languages meeting focus
Marino
mary.marino at usask.ca
Fri Jun 23 20:56:33 UTC 2006
Jimm -
This is wonderful news about the grant you applied for. Congratulations,
and best wishes for progress in your work! I may be asking you for lexical
material one of these days, since I seem to have signed up for a
comparative paper on word formation.
Mary
At 10:46 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote:
>Randy:
>Thanks for the news article, which I have E'd to some Baxoje,
>Jiwere~Ñut^achi. Indeed, Thank You very much and with heartfelt
>appreciation. It seems seems these simple words are such a small return
>to you for everything in regard to the facilitation of the conference that
>included economy dorm apts, meals, city directions, evening cafes, copys
>of papers and guest speakers. No doubt, everyone should be home
>recuperating by now, and reviewing their return to daily routine. I'll
>look for opportunity to allow to the reading and review of so many
>interesting papers.
>I cannot recall a conference of such shared fellowship, support and with
>so many interesting discussions on language and comparative issues. I
>look forward to the draft of John's paper on Pronouns, which was tempting
>to stay for, but I know now my decision to opt out towards the 20hr drive
>home was the better decision. Granddaughter drove 3.5hrs and with a box
>of Nodoz and an answered prayer, we got back home in one
>piece. Hintagwaiñe was marked with sinje shuje from being strapped in his
>car seat so long. The drive home was the low point of the trip, as the
>literal high of our ten days was the awesome and scary Beartooth trail
>above timberline and the clouds - NEVER that route again!
>
>I'll get Bob's verb reference examples to him and John's complex sentence
>examples as I'm able to look them up. I forgot to get the IOM CD's to
>Johannes. I've learned I must act when I think of something, or I fail to
>do it. If he will send me an address to his location in Wisconsin or
>wherever, I package them for shipment.
>For those who were unable to make the conference, it will be a loss which
>may be be lightened by accessing the presented papers when possible and
>available, or talking with one of us participants.
>.
>Upon my return, there was mail from D.C., notifying that the grant applied
>for will be funded. Apparently, I would have known the decision before
>leaving except that Fast Lane did not notify the agency of my E-address
>change as they said, and the actual grant notice letter to my name was
>sent to the tribe's address. I do not live there in the tribal
>offices. So this is tremendously great news. The project will begin
>officially in October, when they work out bookkeeping with the tribe.
>There is more, for my cup runneth over, but enough for the moment.
>I thank each of you fellow participants for the special persons you are,
>the kindness to my grandchildren and the blessing you extend to the Native
>communities (weather they can appreciate it now or latter, as everyone's
>enlightenment continues).
>NawoPi uramañi taho ...(Vayan con Dios)
>Jimm
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: <rgraczyk at aol.com>
>To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:47 PM
>Subject: E-mail-A-Friend: Indian languages meeting focus
>
>
>
>>Comment:
>>This is the article on the SCLC that appeared in the Billings Gazette.
>>Randy
>>---
>>
>>Story:
>>Indian languages meeting focus
>>
>>Language is so bound up in culture that the loss of American Indian
>>languages is a loss of an important part of their speakers' identities.
>>
>>Linguists working to preserve the Siouan family of Indian languages will
>>meet in Billings on the Rocky Mountain College campus Friday through Sunday.
>>
>>For more of this story, click on or type the URL below:
>>
>>http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/16/news/local/55-language.txt
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