SCLC 46 was held in Lawrence, KS from May 27 through 29, 2026. It was organized by Adam An, Phil Duncan, and Andrew McKenzie and hosted at the University of Kansas. The program from this year appears below:

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Language and Land Walk at Burcham Park
Brett Ramey (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska)

Thursday, May 28, 2026

“Tonal (under)specification in Apsáalooke (Crow)”
Joshua R. Denney (Euskal Herriko Univertsitatea [University of the Basque Country])
“Daḳota Directional Compound Verbs of Motion”
C̣aƞtemaza [Neil McKay] (University of Minnesota)
“Yesa:sahį́ (Tutelo) Revitalization by the Numbers”
Corey Roberts (Elon University)
“The long road to revitalizing the Missouri Chiwere Language Archive”
Raina Heaton (University of Oklahoma), Will Madison (University of Oklahoma), Jill D. Greer (Missouri Southern State University), & Lori Stanley (Luther College)
“Adding Ethnobotany to USDA Plants database website, Fort Peck Nakoda/Dakota example”
R. George Growingthunder (Nakoda/Dakota), Lisa Castle (University of Kansas), & Kelly Kindscher (University of Kansas)
“Teaching and Learning Jiwere-Nut’achi Ich’e: Programmatic Perspectives”
Elsie Whitehorn (Otoe-Missouria Tribe), Jade Roubedeaux (Otoe-Missouria Tribe), Olivia Buffalohead (Otoe-Missouria Tribe), Alvin Moore Jr. (Otoe-Missouria Tribe), Kelene Deer (Otoe-Missouria Tribe), Christina Goodson (Otoe-Missouria Tribe), & Kennetha Greenwood (Otoe-Missouria Tribe)
“‘My Soldier Heart is Strong’: a biography of chief Waƞbdi Úpi Dúta (Scarlet Plume), based on primary historical sources in Dakota”
Akiṡ’a Redsoldier (Sisseton Wahpeton College)
“An Accoustic Study of Dakota Stress: Dakota Stress from a Typological Perspective”
Alessandro Jaker (Sisseton Wahpeton College), Phil Howson (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics]), Kaleb Bushbreaker (Sisseton Wahpeton College), Ohiyes’a Eastman (Sisseton Wahpeton College), Jasmine Akiṗa (Sisseton Wahpeton College), & Dante LaFontaine (Sisseton Wahpeton College)
“Dakhóta Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi: Dakota Language Dictionary Development, Research, and Next Steps”
Šišóka Dúta (Sisseton Wahpeton College)
Roundtable discussion: Language Tables
Sheila Shigley (University of Wisconsin)

Friday, May 29, 2026

“Converbs in Lakota: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis”
Jan Ullrich (Lakota Language Consortium)
“Creating Lakota Literature from Oral Narratives”
Richard Two Dogs (Oglala Sioux Tribe) & Jan Ullrich (Lakota Language Consortium)
“Mandan and Hidatsa Ethnonyms: Origins, Meanings, and Historical Context”
Indrek Park
EyaCoNape Fox (Arikara Cultural Center), Bheri Rose Hallam (Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Culture and Language Department), & Thomas Plenty Chief Jr. (Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Culture and Language Department)
“The odd distribution of obstruents in the Siouan languages: Hidatsa, Lakota and Osage”
John Boyle (California State University, Fresno), Avreen Kaur, & Armik Mirzayan (University of Virginia)
“Valency-changing affixation and the Mirror Principle in Lakota”
Samuel Kennedy (University of Minnesota)
“Schwa insertion in Ho-Chunk”
Nancy Hall (California State University, Long Beach), Liana Bozorgi (University of California), & Sheila Shigley (University of Wisconsin)
“Numerals in Proto-Siouan”
Ryan Kasak (University of Oklahoma)
“An investigation of Osage pi”
Cameron Pratt (Osage Nation) & Marcia Haag (University of Oklahoma)
“Algoquian loanwords in Baxoje-Jiwere and Hoocąk”
Vincent Collette (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi [University of Quebec at Chicoutimi])
“Acoustic analysis of Umoⁿhoⁿ vowels: an update”
Rick Niska (University of Virginia)