Program (updated Oct. 14, 2026)

Community Day, Thursday, 22 October

TimePippy Park North Bank LodgeSignal Hill AnnexBruneau Auditorium, Memorial University
8:00-9:00Registration and light breakfastRegistration and light breakfast
9:00-10:30Pipe ceremony: Mike DoucettePipe ceremony: Mutchie Bennett
10:30-12:00Silverberry crafting workshop: Gail WelburnSealskin crafting workshop: Matt Perrier
12:00-1:30
1:30-4:00Crafting (cont’d) and StorytellingCrafting (cont’d) and Storytelling
6:00-9:00Reception and Movie: The Forgotten Warriors

Friday, 23 October

TimeSN-2109SN-2098SN-2067
8:30-9:00Registration and light breakfast
9:00-9:30Opening ceremony
9:30-10:15Keynote Talk: NL Mi’kmaw History: Elder Calvin White
10:15-10:30BREAKBREAK
10:30-11:00Plains Cree Youth and
nêhiyawêwin Reclamation (Maria Mazzoli, Jordan Royal, Dorothy Thunder & Randy Morin)
11:00-11:30Anishinaabemowin child-directed speech: an exploratory study of the usage of verb classes and orders (Angela Easby, U of Toronto)Toward a Model of Myaamia Emotion and Affect (Hunter Thompson Lockwood & Haley Shea)
11:30-12:00Zero morphemes in Algonquian (Will Oxford, U of Manitoba)Naabisijigeng Odibaajimowiniwaan ‘Recording Their Stories’ (Nimkee Kiyoshk, Walpole Island First Nation)
12:00-1:00LUNCH
1:00-2:15Keynote Panel: Mentors and Apprentices in Indigenous Language Revitalization (Jackie Dormer, Janelle John, Ann Marchand, Gail Welburn &Kathleen Anderson)
2:15-2:30BREAKBREAK
2:30-3:00Microvariation in Ojibwe dialects (Britton Williams, U of Ottawa)
3:00-3:30Patterns of Initial Change, NE Cree (Ryan Henke & Julie Brittain)Discourse Markers in Kickapoo (Mosiah Bluecloud, UC Berkeley)
3:30-4:00Zero morphemes in Algonquian (Will Oxford, U of Manitoba)Equational sentences in Meskwaki (Amy Dahlstrom, U of Chicago)
4:00-4:30Grammatical features of a Meskwaki author’s Raccoon and Wolf and Fox and Wolf stories (Lucy Thomason, Smithsonian Institution)On the Ojibwe dubitative (Éric Mathieu, U of Ottawa)
4:30-5:00Comparing Algonquian lexicons (Richard A. Rhodes, UC Berkeley)Portioning with Anáó’k (Elizabeth Harrigan, UBC)

Saturday, 24 October

TimeSN-2109SN-2098Science Foyer
8:30-9:00Opening ceremonyRegistration and light breakfast
9:00-10:15Keynote Panel: Youth in Leadership: Cameron Adams, Jackie Dormer, Draco Dunphy, Kathleen Anderson
10:15-10:30BREAKBREAKBREAK
10:30-11:00Two Applicatives in Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey (Peter Grishin, Elise Newman)Indigenous craft market
11:00-11:30Long-Distance Agreement by Proxy in Passamaquoddy- Wolastoqey (Norvin Richards, MIT)Impact of Information Structure on the Comprehension of the Inverse Verb Form in Ojibwe (Marcella Jurotich, Christopher Hammerly)
11:30-12:00Two Kinds of ‘only’ in Passamaquoddy- Wolastoqey (James Cooper Roberts, MIT)“Oh my God, I Can Do This in Potawatomi”: Code-mixing in Potawatomi Revitalization (Corinne Kasper, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi)
12:00-1:00LUNCHLUNCHLUNCH
1:00-1:45Keynote Panel: Indigenous Language Revitalization in Newfoundland and Labrador (Nicholas Welch: Kanani Davis, KMFP, ?Angela Christmas)Ojibwe forms with Cree functions (Matthew Windsor, Mishamikoweesh)Indigenous craft market
1:45-2:15Wisdom in Words: Elders, Language, and Law (Helen Koulidobrova, Carolyn Laude, Andrew Pawluch, Theresa Sinclair)Reconstructing Proto-Algonquian stress: evidence from Blackfoot, Arapaho, and Cheyenne (Ksenia Bogomets, University of Auckland)
2:15-2:45Making Accessible Terminology for Cheyenne (Richard Littlebear, Wayne Leman, and Sarah Murray)No Longer on the Giimooj: Exploring Anishinaabemowin Language Reclamation (Juscenta Marlene Haligowski, U of Winnipeg)
2:45-3:15Verbs of Diminutive Action and Compassion in Northwest Ojibwe (Aandeg Ningewance)Ethnolinguistic features of the Dictionnaire Algonquin Français by Jean-Claude Mathevet (1750) (Vincent Collette, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
3:15-3:45Re-evaluating Proto-Plains (Natalie Weber, Yale U.)Papers of the Algonquian Conference (Inge Genee, U of Lethbridge)
3:45-5:00Poster session
5:00-5:15BREAKBREAKBREAK
5:15-7:00Algonquian Studies Association: Annual General Meeting
7:00-9:00DINNERDINNERDINNER

Poster session, Science Foyer, 3:45-5:00, Saturday, 24 October

Le Boullenger’s Miami-Illinois Missionary Manual: Organization, Overview, and Preliminary AnalysisHunter Thompson Lockwood & David Costa
Some transitivity alternations in Passamaquoddy-WolastoqeyElise Newman & Peter Grishin
Weak Crossover Effect in Swampy Cree: An InvestigationElora Cromarty, MIT
La réduplication en atikamekwVéronique Chachai, Jeannette Coocoo, Marie-Odile Junker, Claudie Ottawa & Nicole Petiquay
Participles in Innu-aimun and object markingJimena Terraza & Yvette Mollen
The dual origin of French loanwords in MicmacStephane Goyette, Acadia U
Stealth endangerment: The long-term effects of family language policy in Sheshatshiu Innu-aimunNicholas Welch, Tamarah Hill, Jennifer Thorburn, & Kanani Davis
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Potawatomi Velar ProductionSamue Contreras & Corinne Kasper

Sunday, 25 October

TimeSN-2109SN-2098Science Foyer
8:30-9:00Opening ceremonyRegistration and light breakfast
9:00-10:00Keynote Panel: Indigenous Media Creation (Jackie Dormer, Tom Johnson, Westin Sutherland, & David Delorme)Toward Automatic Speech for Plains Cree (Pertti Palo, Garry Anaquod, & Antti Arppe)
10:00-10:30Treebank study of Argument Realization and Word Order in Ojibwe Direct/Inverse (Matthias Diederichsen & Christopher Hammerly)A Improved Computational Model of Plains Cree Morphology (Antti Arppe & Arok Wolvengrey)Indigenous craft market
10:30-11:00BREAKBREAKBREAK
11:00-11:30Stress and Prominence in Southwestern Ojibwe (Eric Frank, U of Minnesota)Bootstrapping a Computational model for Swampy Cree (Elora Cromarty, Joel Jansen, Grace Yang, & Antti Arppe)Indigenous craft market
11:30-12:00The Algonquian Linguistic Atlas (Marie-Odile Junker, Carleton U)Towards a Spoken Dictionary of nîhithawîwin Cree (Andrea Custer, Anne Clarke, Solomon Ratt, Angelique Sewap, Grace Yang, Joel Jansen, Cameron Duval & Antti Arppe)
12:00Conference closing
1:30-5:00Satellite event: Workshop on Revitalizating Mi’kmaw in NL