When he began recording the words of a Native speaker 40 years ago, linguist Noel Rude had no idea that his life’s work would form the foundation of the first dictionary for the Umatilla language.

Consists of the following sections: 1. English-Nez Perce vocabulary. 8 pages. Received in Smithsonian Institution, August, 1875. 2. English-Nez Perce dictionary. 735 pages filled with English words ...

I have tried to become fluent in the language of the Nez Perce, NimipuutÌmt. It is not the language of my ancestors, the Southern Ute, but it is the language of the landscape I find myself in, the ...

My immersion in language and the histories of Nez Perce words steered my education, and my research, into the natural sciences. As a NASA fellow, I created a transdisciplinary habitat suitability ...