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      • 2022/23 Shining Student | It'samahka (Driving Along the Beach), Blair Many Fingers
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      • 2022/23 Shining Student | Siksiikakoan (Blackfootman), Shane McDougall
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      • 2017/18 Shining Student | Janine Jackson
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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

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