My Work on Arapahoan Language and Culture
My CV
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| My interests focus on the traditional oral literature of
the Northern Arapaho Tribe, and more broadly on the ways that the Arapaho language is
used creatively
within the Arapaho culture in order to establish, maintain or question social
values and the Arapaho individual's relationship to the culture. |
| More broadly, my theoretical interests include linguistic performance, genres and frames of cultural performance, diachronic linguistic anthropology, language ideology, discourse structures, and language documentation and revitalization. |
| I am also interested in Gros Ventre/White Clay, Cheyenne and Miwok languages, and I serve as director of CU's Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West (CSILW). My recent projects include: |
| An anthology of traditional narratives, Hinono'einoo3itoono / Arapaho Historical Traditions, with Alonzo Moss, Sr. published by University of Manitoba Press (2005) and distributed in the US by Michigan State University Press. |  |
A grammar of the Arapaho language, with Alonzo Moss, Sr. plublished by University Press of Colorado (2008) |  |
An educational website documenting
Arapaho culture in northern Colorado, funded by
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.
A 46-minute videotape on Arapaho storytelling, Telling Stories: Arapaho Narrative
Traditions (2001), featuring stories in Arapaho
with English subtitles, and an
accompanying explanatory booklet, copyright Wyoming Council for the Humanities
(Available
from CSILW)
A set of 2 CD-ROMs, The Arapaho in Colorado (2007), funded by the National
Park Service, documenting traditional Arapaho culture in Colorado.
Topics include
plants, animals, places, narratives, ethnoastronomy, weather, and a general introduction
to language, culture, history, music, dance, and religion. (Available from CSILW)
An anthology of contemporary, reservation-era narratives, with 3 accompanying
CD-ROMs containing the original recordings of the stories, entitled Modern
Arapaho Narratives, told by Richard "Dickie" Moss, funded by the Wyoming
Council for the Humanities
(Available
from CSILW).
A 55-page sketch of Gros Ventre grammar, based on the work of Allan Taylor,
available from CSILW.
A database of the Gros Ventre lexicon, housed in the CSILW electronic archives.
A collection of four traditional Gros Ventre narratives, under preparation in collaboration with Terry Brockie, Gros Ventre Tribe.
A book on Arapaho linguistic culture, under preparation.
A conversational database for Arapaho, funded by Univ. of London, SOAS, Endangered Language Documentation Program.
Academic papers and additional language documentation materials. (see CV)