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The 46th Algonquian Conference – October 23-26, 2014
Thursday, October 23rd
5:007:00pm
RECEPTION
The Vista Lounge at Wombi Rock in the Casino of the Sky, Mohegan Sun Casino
Friday, October 24th
8:009:00
Registration – Schaghticoke Room above escalators
Continental Breakfast
Pre-function Area
9:0011:30
PLENARY SESSION – Ballroom One
Mohegan Welcome
Chief Lynn Malerba
Ives Goddard, Smithsonian Institute
Some early Munsee Placenames from New York, New Jersey . . . and Connecticut.
Honoring of Ives Goddard
Marge Bruchac, University of Pennsylvania
Following the Wampum Trail
Jason Mancini, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Preserved on the Mighty Waters: Exploring the Indian Mariners Project
Registration Desk in Schaghticoke Room
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The 46th Algonquian Conference – October 23-26, 2014
11:301:00
1:003:00
Lunch on your own
Ballroom 1A
Ballroom 1B
Ballroom 1C
1:001:30
Symposium
Douglas Gordon
The Distribution of me' and gi's in
Mi'gmaq
Erik D. Gooding
akwi nenadi iboni meskwakiwiyattini:
Understanding the Individual in
Meskwaki Culture Through History
Michael David Hamilton, Michael
Wagner, Mary Ann Metallic, Janice
Vicaire, and Elise McClay
Focus in Mi'gmaq: Prosodic and
syntactic reflexes
Victor P. Lytwyn
Indian Presents: The Bounty of the
Crown and Sacred Trust Reconsidered
Chris Cieri and Mark Liberman
Using automatic speech analysis with
language archives
1:302:00
2:002:30
2:303:00
D. H. Whalen, Christian DiCanio, and
Hannah King
From corpus to corpus phonetics:
Challenges in adapting an Arapaho
corpus for linguistic research
Christian DiCanio and D. H. Whalen
Vowel production in a spoken Arapaho Michael David Hamilton
corpus
An analysis of ditransitives and
''possessor raising'' in Mi'gmaq
Monica Macaulay
Preparing Menominee material for
automatic speech processing
William C'Hair
Why I participate in archiving efforts:
Arapaho for the future
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Carol-Rose Little
Negation in Mi'gmq
Akeia A. Benard
Liminality and Prestige: Interpreting
the Status of Seventeenth-Century
Native American Children with Burial
Data
Doug Harris
Triggered by Tribal Elders’
Declarations, New Tribal Historic
Preservation Research Frontiers
Emerge
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The 46th Algonquian Conference – October 23-26, 2014
3:003:30
Break
3:30 –
4:00
Fanny York
The treatment and categorization of
direct and inverse forms in Algonquian
grammars before the twentieth century
Conor McDonough Quinn
Algonquian grammar without all the
grammar: making Algonquian
language patterns accessible to all
Rhonda Telford
The Indian Land Management Fund
and the Indian Agents on Lake
Superior to 1913
4:00 –
4:30
Vincent Collette
Two idiomatic verbs of speaking in
Northern East Cree
Andrew J. Strack
metimankwiki kimehšoominaanaki we follow our ancestors trail: Sharing
historical myaamia language
documents across myaamionki
Douglas Schwartz
Native American Archeogeology:
Clues to the subterranean landscape
Martina Wiltschko and Elizabeth
Ritter
The Syntax of Animacy and
Humanness
Irina Vagner
Language Revitalization on the Web:
Developing Algonquian Resources
Theresa Schenck
The St. Croix Chippewa of Wisconsin:
A Lost Tribe?
4:30 –
5:00
5:007:00
Dinner
7:009:00
Introduction of Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England
Edited by Siobhan Senier to be held in Ballroom One – Refreshments
Registration Desk in Schaghticoke Room
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The 46th Algonquian Conference – October 23-26, 2014
Saturday, October 25th
8:009:00
Continental Breakfast
Pre-function Area
9:0010:00
Business Meeting
Haven’t a clue yet
Ballroom 1A
Ballroom 1B
Ballroom 1C
10:0010:30
Ksenia Bogomolets
Arapaho as a stress-accent language
Brandon J. Fry and Éric Mathieu
The morphosyntax and semantics of
long-distance agreement in Algonquin
Ojibwe
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
Firefly Song of Wind Loves Mountain
Thunder: Naming Timeless
Connections in a Poem by
Narragansett Medicine Woman Ella
Wilcox Sekatau
10:3011:00
Ryan Kasak and Claire Bowern
Quiripi verbal inflection
Cherry Meyer
Universal quantification in Ojibwe:
Nominal structure and scope
Hunter Thompson Lockwood
Revisiting Potawatomi Derivational
Morphology
11:0011:30
Heather Bliss and Will Oxford
Patterns of Syncretism in Nominal
Paradigms: A Pan-Algonquian
Perspective
David J. Costa
The Future/Desiderative in MiamiIllinois and Old Illinois
Antti Arppe, Lene Antonsen, Trond
Trosterud, Conor Snoek, Dorothy
Thunder, Jordan Lachler, Jean Okimâsis,
Arok Wolvengrey
Linguistic insights from computational
modeling of Plains Cree morphology
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11:3012:00
Will Oxford
Variation in TA theme signs
11:301:30
Lunch
1:302:00
Amy Dahlstrom
Obviation and information structure in
Meskwaki
Bill Jancewicz
Developing Naskapi Grammatical
Awareness and its effect on Adult
Literacy
Rachel Sayet
Wikôtamuwôk Wuci Ki tà Kihtahan (A
Celebration of Land and Sea): Modern
Indigenous Cuisine in New England
Richard A. Rhodes
Obviation, inversion, and the notion of
topic in Algonquian
Lori Morris
Lessons from language testing of Innu
children: The critical need for early
intervention
Jeanne Morningstar Kent
The visual language of Wabanaki art
Arok Wolvengrey
A Functional Discourse Grammar
Analysis of Plains Cree Constituent
Order: a beginning
Joel Dunham
Computationally modelling the
morphophonology of
Blackfoot: Expediting IGT creation
and automating analysis testing
Jason R. Mancini
Living between Termination and
Recognition: An Indian Neighborhood
in Westerly, Rhode Island, 1850-1950
2:002:30
2:303:00
3:003:30
Meredith Johnson and Bryan Rosen
Mary Hermes, Jordyn Flaada and
The syntax of medial incorporation and Kevin Roach
concrete finals in Menominee
Why is this so slow? The Ojibwe
Movies Conversation Project
Break
Registration Desk in Schaghticoke Room
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The 46th Algonquian Conference – October 23-26, 2014
3:304:00
Meredith Johnson
The syntax of wh-scope marking:
evidence from Menominee
Andrew Cowell
Topic Initiation, Addition and Control:
A Multi-modal Perspective from
Arapaho
John S. Moody
Alnôbak, Wôbanakiak, ta
Alnôbaiwi: Abenaki Language
Survival from the 18th Century to
Present
4:004:30
Inge Genee and Arok Wolvengrey
The Functional Discourse Grammar
approach to information structure
applied to word order in Cree and
Blackfoot
Philip S. LeSourd
Binding Condition C does not hold in
Passamaquoddy
Lynn Drapeau
Associative plurality in Innu
4:305:00
Monica Macaulay and Joseph Salmons
Menominee Deverbal Finals in
Historical Context
Kathleen Strader
Function and position of Michif
Determiners
Ruth Wallis Herndon and Alice Nash
“Come as we meet on common
ground”: A Collaborative Approach to
Narragansett History
Margaret Noodin
Critical Commentary on Stretching
Creative Limits in a Re-emerging
Language
Sarah Lundquist
Semantic contributions of abstract
finals in Menominee AI verbs
5:00 - 6:00 Break
6:00 - 8:00 Annual Banquet
Sunday, October 26th
8:009:00
Continental Breakfast
Pre-function area
9:009:30
Kyumin Kim and Elizabeth Ritter
The categories of number in Blackfoot
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The 46th Algonquian Conference – October 23-26, 2014
9:3010:00
Miloje Despic and Sarah Murray
Cheyenne and the Typology of Person
Features
Donna L. Moody
Anthropology, Colonization, and
Indigenous Peoples from the
Perspective of an Abenaki Scholar:
How Violence to Indigenous Peoples
Continues
10:0010:30
Inge Genee
A Functional Discourse Grammar
account of Blackfoot causative
constructions
David Ezzo and Michael Moskowitz
Shinnecock Indian History and Land
Claims: A Historical Overview
Lucy Thomason
A Few Words and Thoughts That
Didn't Make It Into the
Dictionary: Implications of a Newly
Discovered Manuscript of Alfred
Kiyana's
10:30 -11:00 Break
11:0011:30
Kyumin Kim
Animacy and transitive alternation in
Blackfoot
Eric Maynard
"Reel" or "Real Americans"?: Bringing
Algonquin Voices to the American
Indian Film Gallery (AIFG) Archives
11:3012:00
Heather Bliss and Martina Wiltschko
The Syntactic Composition of
Blackfoot Demonstratives
Manuel Lizarralde and Jason Mancini
The Historical Ethnobotany of
Southern New England: Recovering
and Repatriating Indigenous Plant
Knowledge
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