The following is an excerpt from Rising from the Ashes edited by William Willard, Alan G. Marshall, and J. Diane Pearson (June 2020). Chapter 2: Nimiipuu Peoplehood, Survival, and the Indian TerritoryBy J. Diane Pearson On October 5, 1877, an estimated … Continue reading Excerpt: Rising from the Ashes
Olga Lovick is professor of linguistics and department head at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the editor of a collection of stories of the Tetlin people of Alaska. Her new book, A Grammar of Upper Tanana, Volume 1, provides a … Continue reading From the Desk of Olga Lovick: The Meaning of Grammar
The following is an excerpt from Walks on the Ground: A Tribal History of the Ponca Nation, a record of Ponca elder Louis V. Headman’s personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades. Afterword History tells us the influx of … Continue reading Excerpt: Walks on the Ground
The world’s linguistic diversity is diminishing, with more than two hundred languages declared extinct and thousands more endangered. As these languages disappear, deep stores of knowledge and cultural memory are also lost. The scholarly significance of these endangered and extinct … Continue reading Recovering Languages and Literacies
The following is an excerpt from When Dream Bear Sings: Native Literatures of the Southern Plains (Nebraska, 2018) edited by Gus Palmer Jr. From the Introduction This book comprises Native literatures from storytellers of the Great Southern Plains. Many of the … Continue reading EXCERPT: When Dream Bear Sings
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