Cheyenne
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fieldwork
Summer 2007
This past summer, I returned to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. I was able to gloss and re-translate ten more texts and to continue work on Cheyenne evidentiality, reflexivity/reciprocity, and conditionals. This research was funded in part by grants from The Endangered Language Fund and the Graduate School, New Brunswick, Rutgers University.
Summer 2006
In the Summer of 2006, I began fieldwork on Cheyenne with a short pilot study.
I traveled to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana and attended the annual Northern
Cheyenne Powwow, met many members of the community, and volunteered in a couple of projects.
Additionally, I was able to complete some linguistic work. With the help of a native speaker
consultant I was able to morphologically gloss some previously recorded Cheyenne texts and do a
little supplementary work on Cheyenne reportative evidentials. See SNARL for a short report. This research was funded by a Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research and the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers.
Thanks to William Starr, who accompanied me for assistance recording the data, driving help, appropriateness, company, and fending off coyotes. See SNARL for a short report, and look for updates here, as I will post the stories I gloss.
This research was funded by the Phillips Fund for Native American Research and the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers.
Spring 2004 (on Ottawa)
I first was introduced to fieldwork and Algonquian languages during a field methods class at Wayne State University. We studied Ottawa, an Algonquian language like Cheyenne, and worked with a consultant, Rita Sands, as well as other members of the Ottawa community on Walpole Island. My research focused on derivation in Ottawa: denominal verbs, deverbal nouns. For some of my papers on Ottawa, please see my papers page.
