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Biography/History
The WNALP was originally called the Pilot Linguistics Project in Native American Languages
in Wisconsin. It was an educational project under the auspices of the Great Lakes
Inter-Tribal Council (GLITC), funded under Title IV of the Indian Education Act. The GLITC
Education Committee established general policies of the project. The Native American
Languages Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee actually carried out the
operations through a sub-contract with the GLITC.
The main goal of the project was to further linguistic analysis of the languages indigenous
to the region, and to foster an exchange between linguists and speakers of these languages.
The project was originally organized around four language groups: Menominee, Ojibwe
(Chippewa), Oneida, and Potawatomi; Ho-Chunk was later added. Twelve native speakers were
hired as language resource consultants, working with a staff linguist in analyzing
grammatical aspects of the languages and in preparing written and recorded sound
materials.
The project was carried out in three phases:
- Phase I, 1973-1974
- Phase II, 1974-1975
- Phase III, 1974-1975
Details on the organization and administration of the project are available in the
correspondence and reports folders, and the Phase II and III reports folders. The WNALP
staff were:
- Counselor/Advisor: John Beaudin
- Linguistic Coordinator: John Nichols
- Linguists (Language Studied): Lawrence Foley (Oneida); Ken Miner (Menominee); John
Nichols (Chippewa and Potawatomi)
- Secretaries: Katie Mc Gowaan, Evelyn Newkirk
- Chippewa language consultants: Hannah Maulson, George Oshogay, Earl Thomas
- Menominee language consultants: Wallace Pyawasit, Margaret Richmond, Merceline
Sanapaw
- Oneida language consultants: Maria Hinton, Emily Schwamp, Lavina Webster
- Potawatomi language consultants: Mary Daniels, Bill Daniels, Jr., Mabel
Deverney
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