TALK: Maidu Myths:
The Challenges of Translation
William Shipley (Linguistics, UCSC)
Tuesday, March 7 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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William Shipley is an Emeritus Professor of linguistics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he worked from 1966 to 1991. He is known for his pioneering work with the unique and endangered language of the Mountain Maidu Indians of California, and has published the only Dictionary of the Maidu language. Recently, Shipley authored several books on Maidu Myths with bilingual translations.

Sponsored by IHC’s Native American Indigenous Languages Research Focus Group.

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