Siouan

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Columbia, 1997.

Using an example in which she challenged a newspaper story claiming that that there was no written Lakota language the author talks about the way that Indigenous people are often not considered to be knowledgeable about their own languages and cultures in the academy.

Discussion of Sinte Gleska University's groundbreaking role as a leader in tribal-based higher education.

Comments on the imminence of the Lakota language being lost and the many decisions needed to be made in order to keep the language vibrant, including choosing which set of diacritics to use.

Describes aspects of the Dakota language presented at a Historical Society meeting in 1883.

An interview with a professor of Lakota Studies who has made a study of the unpublished manuscripts of the Yankton Sioux ethnographer and linguist.

Studies the Siouan language family and investigates a basis for split intransitivity.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1997.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1984.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2003.

Focuses on an old account of the Oglala Sioux ceremony including prayers and songs; this revised text uses Rigg's Siouian alphabet and includes a verbatim translation.

Reports the joint venture by Sisseton Wahpeton College and the Association of American Indian Affairs of producing the first rap song ever recorded in the Dakotah language.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

Languages and Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1997.

Looks at the seven indigenous languages of Manitoba, some more threatened then others, and the possibility of revitalizing these languages in Manitoba schools.

Highlights the success of promoting Crow language and culture at Little Big Horn College in Montana

Bilingual (Dakota and English) presentation of a tale about a man and his ghost wife.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes The Osage Tribe: Rite of Vigil by Francis La Flesche Includes Osage versions and literal translation.

Comments on the language revitalization program in Oklahoma and the challenges faced including too few teachers to keep up with demand.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

Looks at texts translated from Lakota, the relationship to George Sword's writing, the history and comparison to transitional texts from other cultures.

Examines the translation of a legend from Dakota to English as a dynamic and complex process that extends beyond literal translation to understanding the context of both cultures and languages. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 43.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2015.

Analysis of the inititiatives by the Tutelo of the Six Nations Reserve at Grand River, Ontario to protect their identity and culture amid the Great League of the Iroquois Nations in 1934-35.

Reproduced from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 21, no. 114 (Mar., 1883), pp. 1-47.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.

Discusses the reasons why the author had difficulty attempting to learn his Dakota language. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 57.