![]() ![]() Her project NʉmʉTekwa (Speak Comanche!) was recently chosen by the Smithsonian Institution’s Recovering Voices Program as one of two projects they will fund for 2019. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University. She has worked with Comanche speakers over the last two years and has been awarded grants for her language work from the American Philosophical Society, the Endangered Language Fund’s Native Voices Endowment, and the Dorothy F. Briner is currently completing coursework for a second doctorate that focuses specifically on the Comanche language and revitalization. Hiring for the other two positions in the department, Language Coordinator and the Information & Communication Specialist, is underway. Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner was hired on January 29, 2019, as Director of Language Planning and Development. The department was slated to begin in October 2018 and we are now on the road to the revitalization and reclamation of the Comanche language.ĭr. Through the efforts of our Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee and the Comanche Nation Language Planning Group, the Comanche Tribal Council approved the creation of a new language department on the budget last year. Our mission is to revitalize and reclaim the Comanche Language and to help our people speak and think in Comanche in our own unique ways. ![]()
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