Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

614. Decolonizing Native American Languages

7:15–8:30 p.m., Columbus Hall G, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures

Presiding: Frederick H. White, Slippery Rock Univ.

1. “Endangered Literatures: Why Saving Languages Is Important to Native American Studies,” Margaret A. Noori, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “The Colonization and Decolonization of the Dakota Language,” John Hunt Peacock, Jr., Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art

3. “Pure Oral Tradition: A Decolonized View of Language and Literature,” Delphine Red Shirt, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson

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