Hearing Before the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
on
S. 575, a Bill to Amend the Native American Languages Act
to Provide for the Support of Native American Language Survival Schools,
and for other purposes
Thursday, May 15, 2003
10:00 a.m.
Room 485 Russell Senate Building
Vice Chairman Inouye's Opening Statement
Senator Akaka's Opening Statement
Witness List
Panel I
DR. LEANNE HINTON, President, Society for the Study of the Indigenous
Languages of the Americas, Berkeley, California.
DR. CHRISTINE SIMS, Chairwoman, Linguistic Institute for Native Americans and
Member of Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico.
Accompanied by: VINA LENO, Acoma Pueblo; CARLA HERRERA (12 years old),
Pueblo de Cochiti; and TRAVIS PECOS (12 years old), Pueblo de Cochiti.
DR. MARY EUNICE ROMERO, College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona.
DR. WILLIAM DEMMERT, JR., Professor of Education, Woodring College of
Education, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
Panel II
MS. ROSALYN LaPIER, Piegan Institute/Nizipuhwahsin School, Browning,
Montana.
Accompanied by: MS. JOYCELYN DesROSIER, Piegan Institute/Nizipuhwahsin
School, Browning, Montana.
MRS. GENEVA NAVARRO, Comanche Language Instructor, Comanche Nation College,
Lawton, Oklahoma.
Accompanied by: MRS. RITA COOSEWON, Comanche Language Instructor,
Comanche Nation College, Lawton, Oklahoma.
Panel III
DR. LAWRENCE D. KAPLAN, Director, Alaska Native Language Center, University of
Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Accompanied by : DR. MICHAEL KRAUSS, Founding Director, Alaska Native
Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.
DR. ROSITA WORL, Sealaska Heritage Institute, University of Alaska Southeast,
Juneau, Alaska.
Panel IV
DR. KALENA SILVA, Director, Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke ‘ elikolani College, University
of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai'i.
Accompanied by: MS. KEIKI KAWAIAEA, Director, Kahuawaiola Indigenous Teacher
Education Program, and Director, Hale Kuamoo Hawaiian Language Center, Ka Haka
Ula O Keelikolani (Hawaiian College).
DR. WILLIAM (PILA) WILSON, Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke'elikolani College, University of
Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai'i.
Accompanied by : MR. HOLO HOOPAI, Student, Ke Kula ‘O Nawahiokalani'opu'u,
Hawaii, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai'i.
MS. NAMAKA RAWLINS, Director, ‘Aha Punana Leo, Inc., Hilo, Hawai'i.
DR. MARY HERMES, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Minnesota,
Duluth, Minnesota.
Accompanied by: LISA LaRONGE, Ojibwe Language Immersion School, Hayward,
Wisconsin.
Panel V
DR. WILLIAM Y. BROWN, Director, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
Accompanied by: MS. JENNIFER CHOCK, Director of Program Planning and
Development.
DR. DAVID DINWOODIE, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
MR. JOHN CHEEK, Director, National Indian Education Association, Alexandria,
Virginia.
Accompanied by : MS. CINDY LA MARR, President-Elect, National Indian Education
Association, Alexandria, Virginia.