Colloquium: “The Cahuilla Pedagogical Grammar Project: Results and Outcomes from An Indigenous Language Research Methods (ILRM) Approach to Writing Pedagogical Grammars for Indigenous Communities” by Ray Huaute

Colloquium: “The Cahuilla Pedagogical Grammar Project: Results and Outcomes from An Indigenous Language Research Methods (ILRM) Approach to Writing Pedagogical Grammars for Indigenous Communities” by Ray Huaute

by Keith Miyake Events

Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:

“The Cahuilla Pedagogical Grammar Project: Results and Outcomes from An Indigenous Language Research Methods (ILRM) Approach to Writing Pedagogical Grammars for Indigenous Communities”

By Ray Huaute

Monday, May 19, 2025
1:00-2:00 p.m.
INTN 3023

With specific examples provided from my postdoctoral project, this talk presents an alternative model for research on a language that is also conducted for, with, and by the language-speaking community. In this framework, the “by” can include linguistic research conducted by an Indigenous community researcher as the Principal Investigator (PI), and in a manner that is relationally accountable to the language-speaking community. Centering linguistic research around community-specific language reclamation goals and values allows researchers to identify what might best support local language revitalization efforts.

Ray Huaute (Chumash, Cahuilla), a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Riverside, earned a B.A. in Native American Studies at UCR, an M.A. in Native American Linguistics from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC San Diego.

Ray won an Endangered Language Documentation Programme grant in 2019 to support linguistic fieldwork for his doctoral research on the Desert dialect of Cahuilla spoken on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Reservation.

His postdoctoral research project utilizes original data from contemporary speakers of Cahuilla, along with archival documentation.
Colloquium: “When You’re a Priest, Even Healers Work for the Devil: Settler Persecution and Nahua Resistance in Colonial Mexico” by Edward Anthony Polanco

Colloquium: “When You’re a Priest, Even Healers Work for the Devil: Settler Persecution and Nahua Resistance in Colonial Mexico” by Edward Anthony Polanco

by Keith Miyake Events

Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:

“When You’re a Priest, Even Healers Work for the Devil: Settler Persecution and Nahua Resistance in Colonial Mexico”

By Edward Anthony Polanco

Monday, March 3, 2025
1:00-2:00 p.m.
INTN 3023

Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, which occupies the Monacan Indian Nation’s territory. He also serves as the Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at Virginia Tech. Dr. Polanco received his Ph.D. in History (with a minor in Anthropology) at the University of Arizona.

He is author of Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1650 (University of Arizona Press, 2024) and various articles that pertain to health, the body, and Mesoamerica.