Program

The program for the 46th Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference appears below. Please note that all times are in Central (CDT) [UTC-5:00].

The conference will be hosted in the Burge Union at the University of Kansas. The schedule is subject to change but updates will always be reflected here.

Note that the Burge Union is different from the Kansas Union.

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

We are honored to offer a Language and Land Walk hosted by local guide Brett Ramey. We will meet at 3pm at Burcham Park. The walk will last approximately two hours. Be prepared for sun and wear comfortable shoes. Water will be provided.

Email sclc.kansas [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to request assistance with local transportation. Requests for transportation very close to the conference date may not be able to be fulfilled.

Thursday, May 28, 2026

  • 8:00-8:30 Opening activities

  • 8:30-9:10 Joshua R. Denny - Tonal (under)specification in Apsálooke (Crow)

  • 9:10-9:50 C̣aƞtemaza (Neil McKay) - Daḳota Directional Compound Verbs of Motion

  • 9:50-10:30 Corey Roberts - Yesa:sahį́ (Tutelo) Revitalization by the Numbers

  • 10:30-10:40 Coffee Break

  • 10:40-11:20 Raina Heaton, Will Madison, Jill D. Greer, & Lori A. Stanley - The long road to revitalizing the Missouri Chiwere Language Archive

  • 11:20-12:00 R. George Growingthunder, Lisa Castle, & Kelly Kindscher - Adding Ethnobotony to USDA Plants database website, Fort Peck Nakoda/Dakota example

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch - Catering from Wadulisi’s

  • 1:00-2:20 Elsie Whitehorn, Jade Roubedeaux, Olivia Buffalohead, Alvin Moore Jr, Kelene Deer, Christina Goodson, & Kennetha Greenwood - Teaching and Learning Jiwere-Nut’achi Ich’e: Programmatic Perspectives

  • 2:20-3:00 Akiṡ’a Redsoldier - “My Soldier Heart is Strong”: a biography of chief Waƞbdi Úpi Dúta (Scarlet Plume), based on primary historical sources in Dakota

  • 3:00-3:10 Coffee Break

  • 3:10-3:50 Alessandro Jaker, Phil Howson, Akiṡ’a Redsoldier, Kaleb Bushbreaker, Ohiyes’a Eastman, Jasmine Akiṗa, & Dante LaFontaine - An Acoustic Study of Dakota Stress: Dakota Stress from a Typological Perspective

  • 3:50-4:30 Šišóka Dúta - Dakhóta Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi: Dakota Language Dictionary Development, Research, and Next Steps

  • 4:30-5:30 Hosted by Sheila Shigley - Roundtable discussion: Language tables

Friday, May 29, 2026

  • 8:00-8:35 Jan Ullrich - Converbs in Lakota: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis

  • 8:35-9:10 Richard Two Dogs & Jan Ullrich - Creating Lakota Literature from Oral Narratives

  • 9:10-9:50 Indrek Park - Mandan and Hidatsa Ethnonyms: Origins, Meanings, and Historical Context

  • 9:50-10:00 Coffee Break

  • 10:00-10:40 EyaCoNape Fox, Bheri Rose, & Thomas Plenty Chief, Jr. - The MHA Language efforts of preserving our language

  • 10:40-11:20 John Boyle, Avreen Kaur, & Armik Mirzayan - The odd distribution of obstruents in the Siouan languages: Hidatsa, Lakota, and Osage

  • 11:20-12:00 Samuel Kennedy - Valency-changing affixation and the Mirror Principle in Lakota

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch (on your own)

  • 1:00-1:40 Nancy Hall, Liana Bozorgi, & Sheila Shigley - Schwa insertion in Ho-Chunk

  • 1:40-2:20 Ryan Kasak - Numerals in Proto-Siouan

  • 2:20-2:30 Coffee Break

  • 2:30-3:10 Cameron Pratt & Marcia Haag - An investigation of Osage pi

  • 3:10-3:50 Rick Niska - Acoustic analysis of Umoⁿhoⁿ oral vowels: an update

  • 3:50-4:30 Vincent Collette - Algonquian loanwords in Baxoje-Jiwere and Hoocąk

  • Afterwards Business meeting if necessary