SCLC 31 was held in White Cloud, KS from June 16 through June 18, 2011. It was organized by Jimm GoodTracks, Saul Schwartz, and Mark Awakuni-Swetland, and hosted by the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska at the George Ogdon Building. The program from this year appears below:

Thursday, June 16, 2011

  • “Mandan pronominal prefixes: Arguments or agreement markers?”

    George Wilmes (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Rethinking the Mandan verbal suffix complex (focus suffixes: iši, rąš, eška)”

    Silvana Karin Torres (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “The Mandan right periphery: A syntactic examination of evidentials and force markers”

    Zachary Gordon (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Being assertive in Biloxi”

    David Kaufman (University of Kansas)

  • “Exploring the placement of negation in the post-verbal template of Kansa”

    Justin T. McBride (Oklahoma State University)

  • “Hidatsa sentence connectives: Form and function”

    John P. Boyle (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “The semantics of háki and hakték as sentence connectives in Mandan”

    Alexandrina Geanina Danis (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Language of the traditional cedar flute”

    Reuben I. Kent (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska)

  • “NP coordination in Mandan”

    John Clarkson (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Word or phrase? Criteria for Omaha-Ponca part of speech labels”

    Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College)

  • Roundtable discussion on “Revival of the Wiki (CSG Project)”

Friday, June 17, 2011

  • “Report on the progress of the Lanza Language Dictionary Project”

    Linda Cumberland (Kaw Nation Language Department) & Kira Matthews (Kaw Nation)

  • “Keeping the shiny side up and the greasy side down: A look under the hood of the Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary Project”

    Mark Awakuni-Swetland (University of Nebraska) & Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College)

  • “Ttappuska: A 19th century acculturation term”

    Rory Larson (University of Nebraska)

  • “Current state of the Crow language”

    Randolph Graczyk (St. Charles Parish & OFMCap)

  • “Who were the Tomahitans?”

    Robert L. Rankin (University of Kansas)

  • “Mandan narrative discourse and the evaluative identity of Old Man Coyote”

    Tania Moaton (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “What’s new with the transcriptions and translations of the Trickster Tales of Felix White, Sr.?”

    Kathleen Danker (South Dakota State University)

  • “Valency and verb classes in Hoocąk”

    Iren Hartmann (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • “The Stoney manuscripts of Father Valentin Vegreville, OMI”

    Mary Marino (University of Sasketchewan)

Saturday, June 18, 2011

  • “Monshtínge: A ‘rabbit’ of a different color”

    Mark Awakuni-Swetland (University of Nebraska)

  • “Update on the Ioway, Otoe-Missouria Dictionary Project and Language Nest”

    Jimm GoodTracks (IOM Dictionary Project)

  • “A prayer for the night: A gift from the late Reveran Arthur Lightfoot”

    Jill D. Greer (Missouri Southern State University)