SCLC 37 was held in Joplin, MO from June 13 through June 15, 2017. It was organized by Jill Greer and Johannes Helmbrecht, and hosted at Missouri Southern State University. The program from this year appears below:

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

  • “An update on Umoⁿhoⁿ from the Nebraska Indian Community College, Macy, Nebraska”

    Bryan Gordon (Nebraska Indian Community College & University of Arizona)

  • “Studying the productivity and semantic compositionality of instrumental prefixes in Umóⁿhoⁿ”

    Julie Marsault (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

  • “The state of Siouan language studies today”

    Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College)

  • “Moraic licensing in Crow”

    Daphne Russell (California State University, Fresno)

  • “A database of possible Uto-Aztecan and Siouan lexical cognates”

    Emilia Aigotti Garcia (University of Guadalajara)

  • “Instrumental prefix use in Catawba”

    Samiron Dutta (North Carolina State University)

  • “Instances of prosodic and morphophonemic vowel length in Chiwere”

    Emilia Aigotti Garcia (University of Guadalajara)

  • Movie screening of The Ioway, with an introduction by Jimm GoodTracks & Lance Foster

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

  • “Chiwere plant names”

    Lance Foster (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska)

  • “Gordon Marsh, Robert and Julia Small, and the Americanist textual tradition”

    Saul Schwartz (Florida State University)

  • “Vivid sensory words: Ideophones in Hoocąk”

    Sarah Lundquist (University of Wisconsin)

  • “Complement clauses in Hoocąk”

    Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)

  • “Evidence of Otoe-Omaha language interaction during the mid-nineteenth century Bellevue Period, c. 1845-1855”

    Rory Larson (University of Nebraska)

  • “The ri- and ru- prefixes in Otoe-Missouria”

    Sky Campbell (Otoe-Missouri Tribe)

  • “Geminates in Hidatsa”

    John P. Boyle (California State University, Fresno), Chris Golston (California State University, Fresno), & Wolfgang Kehrein (University of Groningen)

  • “Null morphemes in Crow”

    Chris Colston (California State University, Fresno)

  • “Minimal word and affix size in Crow”

    John Simonian (California State University, Fresno)

  • Spiva Art Gallery tour

Thursay, June 15, 2017

  • “Insights on Otoe-Missouria at Breath of Life 2017”

    Sky Campbell (Otoe-Missoria Tribe) & Sarah Lundquist (University of Wisconsin)

  • “Inside the collections: A treasure-trove of materials from Breath of Life Archival Institute, Washington, D.C., May 29-June 8th, 2017”

    Estee Nicole (Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma) & Jill Greer (Missouri Southern State University)

  • “An acoustic analysis of Kansa vowel quality”

    Justin McBride (Northeast State University–Broken Arrow)

  • Quapaw dice game demonstration by Everett Bandy (Quapaw THPO)

  • Roundtable on tribal language renewal programs with Sky Campbell (Otoe-Missouria Language Director) & team; Justin McBride (Kaw Language Consultant); Lance Foster (Northern Ioway THPO); Bryan Gordon, Rory Larson, & Catherine Rudin (Omaha Language Programs); Quapaw representatives