Originally composed by Chickasaw speaker and politician J. D. Collins and noted linguist Albert Samuel Gatschet, Chikasa 1889: The Collins-Gatschet Chickasaw Manuscripts presents a rare glimpse into two of the oldest and most complete Chickasaw language documents. Featuring images of the original handwritten notebooks, housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives, these full-length manuscripts demonstrate the remarkable consistency and evolution of our language throughout decades of history.
Originally composed by Chickasaw speaker and politician J. D. Collins and noted linguist Albert Samuel Gatschet, Chikasa 1889: The Collins-Gatschet Chickasaw Manuscripts presents a rare glimpse into two of the oldest and most complete Chickasaw language documents. Featuring images of the original handwritten notebooks, housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives, these full-length manuscripts demonstrate the remarkable consistency and evolution of our language throughout decades of history.
Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson, PhD) is the executive officer for the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. A conversational speaker of Chikashshanompaꞌ and an award-winning artist, he holds a bachelor of fine arts in painting from Abilene Christian University, a master's degree in Native American art history from the University of New Mexico, and a PhD in Native language revitalization from the University of Oklahoma. He served as the director of the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program from 2007-2021 and is an advanced second language speaker of Chikashshanompaꞌ. Samantha Cornelius, PhD, has worked with Indigenous languages and projects by and for Indigenous peoples since 2013. She completed her dissertation, Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee, in 2018, which examined tone and intonation interactions at word boundaries in the Cherokee language. Following her dissertation, she worked on a collaborative project on Cherokee pronominal prefixes from a cultural perspective with a Cherokee speaker and teacher (2019-2020), and she served as annotation manager for the Turtle Mountain Talking Dictionary Project (2021), which made an online dictionary for Michif. Since 2022, she has worked for the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division on Chikashshanompaꞌ language documentation, archiving, and research. Her research interests include stress, rhythm, and intonation in Chikashshanompaꞌ, and traditional Chickasaw kinship. Juliet Morgan, PhD, is the senior linguist manager of the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division. She has been working with Indigenous communities and language projects since 2009 and began collaborating with the Chickasaw Nation in 2012. She has been a part of the development team for Rosetta Stone Chickasaw since 2015. Her 2017 doctoral dissertation focused on the acquisition of Chickasaw morphosyntax by adult language learners. Her current work includes assisting with curriculum development, especially for the Chikasha Academy Adult Immersion Program, and further documenting and describing the grammar of both Native speakers and second language speakers of Chikashshanompaꞌ. Kimberly Johnson, PhD, has worked with the Chickasaw Nation in different capacities since 2015, when she began participating in the NSF-funded Chickasaw Verb Project as a graduate student. Johnson joined the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division full time in 2023 as a lead transcriptionist. Her work includes recording and transcribing narratives, maintaining metadata for audio and annotation files included in the Chickasaw Verb Project collection, and coordinating with fluent speakers to translate recordings. In addition to her collaboration with the Chickasaw Nation, Johnson has been involved in language documentation and community-based language research with the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Her 2022 dissertation presented a semantic analysis of the verbal and nominal uses of past tenses in the Mvskoke language. Kati Cain is a Chickasaw citizen, research specialist, and genealogist for the Chickasaw Nation Literary Arts Division. Her main area of focus is Chickasaw Nation Indian Territory, 1839-1907, and she has been involved in the field of genealogy for over ten years. She earned a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma in Native American studies in May 2022. Cain serves on both the Oklahoma Genealogical Society Board and the Ardmore Historic Preservation Board, has published several articles in The Journal of Chickasaw History and Culture, and was a contributing researcher on the recently released Chickasaw Nation Governors List. She lives with her husband Derek and their two boys in Springer, Oklahoma.
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