Schedule |

Most events are at the First Americans Museum (FAM). There are two optional side trips to the Sam Noble Museum, at the University of Oklahoma (in Norman). Each of those is limited to 40 attendees, and preregistration is required.

Times are in Central Daylight Time.

Transportation to and from the main hotels (the Skirvin and the Wyndham Grand) will be provided for the Thursday reception, Friday and Saturday sessions, and Sunday morning-the bus will go from FAM to OKC airport throughout the late morning/early afternoon. You do not need to be staying at one of those hotels in order to use the transportation. A more detailed schedule will be provided at registration.

Coffee will be available in the Hall of the People throughout the day during presentations.

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Thursday, 24 October 2024

02:00 PM – Optional tour of the archives of the Sam Noble Museum

Both the cultural and the language archives will be featured, each for 20 minutes, hosted by Claire Nicholas and Raina Heaton, respectively. Attendance is limited to 40 people; everyone will get see both collections, alternating in groups of 20. This is free, but preregistration is required. Transportation to Norman is up to the attendees; there will not be any transportation provided to Norman or to the FAM on Thursday.

The tour will be repeated on Friday afternoon, 25 October. Transportation to and from Norman and FAM will be provided.
05:00 PM – Registration Opens (FAM)
05:30 PM – Welcome to Conference

Welcome by James Pepper Henry (FAM, emeritus), Raina Heaton (Sam Noble Museum) and Douglas H. Whalen (Endangered Language Fund)
05:35-07:00 PM – Light Reception (FAM)

Friday, 25 October 2024

08:30 AM – Registration Opens (FAM Theater Entrance)
Special session (FAM Theater): Archives and Technology

09:00-09:15 AM – Opening prayer

Welcoming remarks from FAM Director Kelli Mosteller. Logistical considerations, Douglas H. Whalen.
09:15-10:00 AM

Technology for Revitalization: New approaches to archives from National Breath of Life

— Daryl Baldwin, Myaamia Center; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Jerome Viles, Myaamia Center; Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
10:00-10:20 AM

Community-friendly portals to language data

— Jonathan Amith, Gettysburg College
10:20-10:40 AM

Promoting online learning with 7000 Languages

— Mosiah Bluecloud, U. Arizona; Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
10:40-11:00 AM – Break
11:00-11:20 AM

Technology for Anishinaabemowin: Language learning and beyond

— Christopher Hammerly, U. British Columbia
11:20-11:40 AM

Prospects and pitfalls in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Algonquian revitalization

— Caroline Running Wolf, FLAIR Initiative; Crow Nation and Michael Running Wolf, FLAIR Initiative; Northern Cheyenne/Lakota/Blackfeet
11:40 AM-12:00 PM

21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages

— Antti Arppe, U. Alberta
12:00-01:00 PM – Lunch

Lunch included, served in FAM Hall of the People
01:00-04:00 PM – Optional Trip

Side trip to the Sam Noble Museum. Both the cultural and the language archives will be featured, each for 20 minutes, hosted by Claire Nicholas and Raina Heaton, respectively. Attendance is limited to 40 people; everyone will get see both collections, alternating in groups of 20. This is free, but preregistration is required. Transportation to and from Norman and FAM will be provided.

01:00-02:30 PM

Session 1a: Pedagogy I – FAM Theater

Using Puppetry and Music for Anishinaabemowin Revitalization

— John-Paul Chalykoff

Potawatomi VTA Conjunct and changes to this system

— Justin Neely

Description of relative pitch movement in Blackfoot words with multiple pitch accents

— Mizuki Miyashita

Session 1b: Lexicon – Sovereignty Suite

Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba Anishinaabemowin Dictionary Project

— Aandeg Muldrew

Colors as points versus colors as paths: Patterns of use of color terms in Euro-Meskwaki versus traditional Meskwaki literature

— Lucy Thomason

Bringing myaamia kiilhswaakana ‘Lunar Calendars’ into the Digital Age

— Kristina Fox, Hunter Thompson Lockwood
02:30-03:00 AM – Break
03:00-04:30 PM

Session 2a: Revitalization – FAM Theater

Recent changes in the Cheyenne Language

— Richard Littlebear, Wayne Leman, Sarah Murray

Language Reclamation and Resource Development in the Michif Diaspora

— Heather Souter, Carmen Leeming

Session 2b: Pedagogy II – Sovereignty Suite

3 challenging Algonquian language points (and helpful solutions) for learners and teachers

— Conor Quinn

Resources for Shawnee Immersion

— Anastasia Miller-Youst, Bri Alexander

Identifying and Rectifying Disparities Between Community Teaching Resources and Analytic Linguistic Resources in Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey

— Greyson Kurtz
05:15-06:15 PM – Open access to exhibition spaces
05:30-08:30 PM – Cash bar, outside Hall of the People
06:30 PM – Banquet

Served at FAM, Hall of the People. Presentation of language honorees from Oklahoma Algonquian tribes and others

Saturday, 26 October 2024

08:30 AM – Registration Opens (FAM Hall of the People)
Special session (FAM Theater): Language and Health

09:00-09:45 AM – Keynote Address

Indigenous approaches to health and wellbeing

— Maria Crouch, (Yale University; Deg Hit’an and Coahuiltecan Tribes)
09:45-10:30 AM – Keynote Address

The relationship between Indigenous language and health outcomes

— Melissa Lewis, University Missouri; Cherokee Nation
10:30-10:50 AM – Break

10:50 AM-12:10 PM

Session 3a: Language and Health, continued – FAM Theater

Eyewitness accounts of health benefits due to Menominee language revitalization

— Jennifer Gauthier, (College of Menominee Nation)

Creation of Myaamia nahi mehtohseeniwinki, the « living well » model

— Haley Shea, Myaamia Center; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma

Initiatives and training opportunities for Native health at the National Institutes of Health

— Dr. Angela Kenyukīw Fernandez, (Omāēqnomenēw/Menominee Nation) and Dr. Dorothy Castille, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Q&A with Drs. Fernandez and Castille

Session 3b: Culture and Identity – Sovereignty Suite

Swing and Sway the Algonquian Way: Algonquian Contributions to the Historic and Contemporary Powwow

— Erik D. Gooding

Conformity and Conflict: Past and Present Meskwaki (and Sauk) Justice and Authority Systems

— Lily L. Gooding

We are the First Treaties Nations: Reclaiming Eastern Identity through Powwows in the mid-Atlantic

— Maxwell Yamane

lnawending Ani- azaadiikaag: Language & Kinship in the Popple Era

— Michael D. Sullivan
12:10-01:00 PM – Lunch (Provided) in Hall of the People
01:00-02:30 PM

Session4a: Archives and Technology – FAM Theater

New digital tools for the Native American Languages collection and beyond

— Raina Heaton, Kavon Hooshiar

Handling 20th-century legacy materials in the 21st century

— Inge Genee

Improving Support for Human Languages on Computers and Mobile Devices

— Craig Cummings

Session4b: Discourse – Sovereignty Suite

Shawnee Word Order and Discourse Function

— Carl Schaefer, Anastasia Miller-Youst, Terry Hinsley

What does nahei’- ‘then…’ actually mean in Aaniiih/Gros Ventre?

— Andy Cowell

Mohe? Seaa! Noooo! Tseske’e: Tsehesenestsest6tse tsehme’anohe naa tsexho’xe’estove (Cheyenne Particles: Flavoring the Cheyenne language)

— Richard Littlebear, Wayne Leman, Sarah Murray
02:30-03:00 PM – Break

03:00-04:00 PM

Session 5a: Technology for Morphology – FAM Theater

Ongoing development of a finite-state transducer based morphological model for Niitsi’powahsin

— Katherine Schmirler, Inge Genee, Antti Arppe, Dominik Kadlec

Adapting a Plains Cree Morphological Model for Woods Cree

— Daniel Benedict Dacanay, Antti Arppe

Nisinoon: A Database of Algonquian Components

— Monica Macaulay, Hunter Thompson Lockwood, Daniel W. Hieber

Session 5b: Syntax and Morphology – Sovereignty Suite

Revisiting Syncretism in Blackfoot

— Samantha Prins

The syntax of adverbial clauses in Meskwaki

— Amy Dahlstrom

Against an extraction analysis of discontinuous nominals in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy

— Parker Robbins
04:30-05:30 PM PM Business Meeting in FAM Theater

Sunday, 27 October 2024

09:00-10:30 AM

Session 6a: Morphology – FAM Theater

Subordinating prefixes in Anihshininiimowin from grammar to discourse

— Matthew Windsor

The funny medial construction

— Richard A. Rhodes

Building a paradigm: Why the independent order works the way it does

— Will Oxford

Session 6b: Historical/Phonology – Sovereignty Suite

Reflexes of Proto-Algonquian *t in Blackfoot

— Natalie Weber

A Revised Phonological Analysis of the Heckewelder Vocabulary of Nanticoke

— Keith Cunningham

Mixed Obstruent behaviour in Intervocalic Voicing in lnnu-aimun: Contrast and debuccalisation

— Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
10:30-10:45 AM – Break

10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Session 7a: Morphology and Phonetics – FAM Theater

Plains Cree verb template: An information-theoretical perspective

— Cameron Duval, Antti Arppe

Phonetic characteristics of Cheyenne voiceless vowels

— Ryan M. Kasak, Gavin Redding, D. H. Whalen

The use of the conjunct in New varieties of Potawatomi

— Corinne Kasper

Session 7b: Perspectives – Sovereignty Suite

Potawatomi Schooling in Iowa and Kansas before 1848

— Robert Lewis

A Sociolinguistic Study of Preferences, Attitudes and Access among Youth-Aged Mi’kmaw Language Learners in Ktaqmkuk

— Draco Dunphy

Improving Historical Linguistic Research: Ethical Considerations, Biases and Critical Thinking Skills: A case-study focused on Mahican

— Robert Shubinski

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Friday, 25 October 2024

Special session (FAM Theater): Archives and Technology

Saturday, 26 October 2024

Special session (FAM Theater): Language and Health

Sunday, 27 October 2024