Dissertation

Topics in Papago Morphology

Invited Papers and Presentations

Remembering Forgotten Languages:

Activities in Native American Language Revitalization and Maintenance

Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) Conference, UCLA, 1997.

The Politics of Monolingualism

Modern Language Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1996.

Assessing Language Loss and Restoring Languages, (with Jane Hill)

Moderator, Betsy Brandt. Symposium: Losing Species, Languages and Stories: Linking Cultural and Environmental Change in the Binational Southwest, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ, 1996.

Keynote Speaker: Language Maintenance Activity

International Native American Languages Issues Institute, Mille Lacs Reservation, MN, 1996.

Panel chair: The Status of Endangered Languages in the U.S.

Modern Languages Association Conference, San Diego, CA, 1994.

A Handbook on American Indian Language Programs, A symposium,

Co-chair: Kenneth Hale. Native American Language Issues Institute, Glorieta, NM, 1994.

Cultural Production and Cultural Copyright

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1994.

Tohono O'odham Chapel Series (Kozo Miyoshi, photographer)

Center for Creative Photography Gallery talk, 1994.

The Status of Native American Languages: A Research University's Responsibility

Univ. of Arizona Linguistic Colloquium Talk, 1994.

Developing Literacy Through Literature

Presentation at the Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 1993 TESOL Conference, Chinle, AZ.

Rain Words in Tohono O'odham

American Folklore Society Meeting, Eugene, OR, 1993.

American Indian Literature and Literacy

Bureau of Indian Affairs National Literacy Conference, Orlando, FL, 1993.

Role of Native American Linguist

Linguistic Society of America Conference: Special Session on Endangered Languages, Los Angeles, CA, 1993.

Some People Say I Sound Like I'm From Around Here:

Dialect 'Outsiders' in Tohono O'odham Communities

Southwestern Anthropological Association Meeting, Tucson, AZ, 1991, (with Jane Hill)

Tohono O'odham Plurals

American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 1991.

Historical and Contemporary Perspective: The Hia-ce O'odham

The Border Issues Summit, San Xavier, AZ, 1989.

Update: Tohono O'odham Dialect Study

Friends of Uto-Aztec Conference, University of Arizona, 1989.

American Indian Community Education: Higher Education Policies Toward Indian Education

The Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, 1989.

Experiential Marker -n Tohono O'odham

American Anthropological Association Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 1988.

Language Issues for Native American Communities

Moderator, Native American Language Issues Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1988.

Creating New Native American Literature

Native American Language Issues Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1988.

Tohono O'odham Language Assessment for Adults and Children: A Preliminary Model

Native American Language Issues Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 1988.

Tribal Involvement in English Only Issues

Arizona Bilingual Education Association Meeting, Mesa, AZ, 1988.

Legislating the English Language

Arizona Teachers of English Association Conference, Tucson, AZ, 1988.

Directions for American Indian Literature

Modern Language Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1987.

Panelist: Literary Heroines and Heroes: The Western Poetic Tradition

with Phillip Levine, Carolyn Kizer and Alberto Rios
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Tempe, AZ, 1994.

Literature, Language and License:

Aesthetic Value and Literary Form in American Vernacular Languages

Modern Language Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1987.

Poetry and Song in the Native Language

NEH Summer Seminar on American Indian Verbal Arts and Literature, University of AZ, 1987.

Creative Writing in a Bilingual Classroom

28th Annual Arizona Indian Education Conference, Phoeniz, AZ, 1987.

American Indian Languages: Caught in the Middle

Conference on Official English and the Border States, Tempe, AZ, 1987.

Tribal Language Policy Writing: A Tohono O'odham Perspective

Native American Language Issues Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, 1987.

Semantics of Papago Suffix -kuf

Uto-Aztecan Conference, Catalina, AZ, 1985.

Journal Publications

Refereed Articles

Derived Words in Tohono O'odham,

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1992, (with Jane Hill).

Desiderative-Causative in Tohono O'odham,

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1987.

O'odham Ha-cegitodag/Papago and Pima Thoughts

International Journal of American Linguistics, 1980.

Non-Refereed Articles

Where the Wilderness Begins

Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Spring 1997, 4.1, Steve Slovic, Editor.

Voices in the Desert: Contemporary Approaches to Language Maintenance and Survival of an Ancient Language, Tohono O'odham

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Joshua Fishman, editor, 1996, (to appear in 1998).

JeweDa:m Hihimdam and Jewe 'I-hoi,

Cross Cultural Poetics, Mark Novak, Editor, Cross Cultural Poetics Press, 1997.

Tohono O'odham (Papago) Plurals (with Jane Hill)

Estudios de Linguistica y Sociolinguistica, Gerardo Lope Cruz y José Luis Moctezuma Zamarron, compiladores, Universidad de Sonora, 1994.

Mrs. Patricio's Trouble: The Distribution of Responsibility in an Account of Personal Experience

(with Jane Hill), Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse, Jane Hill (Editor), Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Indigenous Memory: Indigenous Voices and Views in School Humanities,

Journal of Navajo Education, Special Issue: Dealing with the Quincentenary: Lessons for the Future, (With Teresa McCarty), 1993.

Situation Des Langes Indigenes Aux Etats-unis

Diogene, No. 153, Patrimoine Culturel: Langues En Preil, Jan-Mars1991, (With Jane Hill).

American Indian Language Policy

Perspectives on Official English: The Campaign for English as the Official Language of the USA, Karen Adams and Daniel Brinks (Editors), Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.

People of the Desert

Apa Insight Guide to Native America, Apa Guide Publications, Hong Kong Ltd., 1991.

The Tohono O'odham Policy A government document.

Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, AZ, 1987.

Desiderative-Causative in Papago

Coyote Working Papers in Linguistics from A-Z, Tom Larsen, editor, 1982.

Thoughts on my Mother's Grave

South Corner of Time, Larry Evers (Editor), University of Arizona Press, 1980. Reprinted in Tlalocan, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 9:155-7, 1982.