Graduate Students
Indigenous Studies Graduate Students
Tyra Hercina
Interests include:
- Indigenous Education Integration
- Curriculum Design
- Critical Indigenous Studies
Shawn Khefets
Interests include:
- Endangered languages
- Language documentation & revitalization
- Language classification & typology
Blair Many Fingers
Interests include:
- Blackfoot Archeology
- Atsiníkssin / Storytelling / Indigenous Literatures
- Niipáítapiisyssin / Blackfoot epistemology, ontology, and axiology
Daniela McGonigal-Videla
Interests include:
- How language learners actively learn an Indigenous language like Blackfoot in Canada, compared to how the Mapuche/Mapudungun language of Chile is being learned
- Indigenous language documentation in Latin America and North America, especially how dreams in the Mapuche culture can influence and help in learning Mapudungun
- Recent interest in language documentation in Scotland and Ireland concerning Irish and Scots Gaelic
Alexandra Smith
Interests include:
- Blackfoot languages revitalization
- Blackfoot language resource development
- Corpus linguistics