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Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter
Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter
Maine History
Karl V. (van Duyn) Teeter learned Japanese as a U.S. Army draftee during the Korean War. Upon his discharge from the military in 1954 he went to Berkeley, majoring in Oriental Languages. He entered Berkeley ’s linguistics program and did fieldwork with the last speaker of Wiyot, a language indigenous to northern California that has since been demonstrated to be genetically related to all the Algonquian languages. After coming to Harvard in 1959 he studied Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and, for several years, chaired Harvard’s linguistics department. He is now Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus at Harvard. What follows is his assessment of Frank …
Siebert And His Correspondence, Paul Proulx
Siebert And His Correspondence, Paul Proulx
Maine History
Paul Proulx is certainly one of the most insightful and prolific of the many scholars who share Frank Siebert's fascination with the Algonquian languages, their histories, and their implications for the reconstruction of the social and cultural histories and prehistories of the Algonquian peoples and their precursors. His description of some encounters with Frank Siebert follows.
Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes
Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes
Maine History
Dr. Blair A. Rudes has conducted linguistic and ethnographic work with members of the Tuscarora Nation of Indians in New York State since the early 1970s. In 1987 he published with Dorothy Crouse, a Tuscarora and historian, a two-volume collection of texts in Tuscarora and English entitled The Tuscarora Legacy of J.N.B. Hewitt: Materials for the Study of the Tuscarora Language and Culture. He is presently completing a dictionary of the Tuscarora language. Dr. Rudes received his doctorate in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976.