Robert Moore is a senior lecturer in the Graduate School of Education (Educational Linguistics Division) at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Chicago (2000). Moore’s linguistic and ethnographic research has included a long-term study of language obsolescence and heritage language maintenance in the Warm Springs Reservation community (Oregon, USA) and studies of the sociolinguistics of contemporary Ireland with special attention to the politics of accent in Irish English. In addition to studies based on these two ongoing ethnographic projects, his publications include a series of critical interventions into the public and scholarly discourse of language endangerment, studies of the politics and policy of multilingualism in contemporary Europe and the US, of the culture history of American Indians in the Pacific Northwest, and of the semiotics of brands and branding. (Information adapted from the faculty directory of the official website of University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education; Date Accessed: 08/09/2023)
Upper Chinook (endonym Kiksht) also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest. It had 69 speakers in 1990, of whom 7 were monolingual: five Wasco and two Wishram. In 2001, there were five remaining speakers of Wasco. The last fully fluent speaker of Kiksht, Gladys Thompson, passed away in July 2012. Two new speakers were teaching Kiksht at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in 2006. The Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Kiksht and Numu in the Warm Springs schools. Audio and video files of Kiksht are available at the Endangered Languages Archive. The last fluent speaker of the Wasco-Wishram dialect was Madeline Brunoe McInturff, who died in 2006 at the age of 91. (Information adapted from the “Upper Chinook language” article on Wikipedia; Date Accessed: 08/09/2023)
Field notes of linguistic research on Wasco-Wishram (Chinookan) language in Washington and Oregon (photocopies), July-Sep. 1984. Informants who contributed to this research include the following: Alice S. Florendo, Bessie Quaempts, Celia Ashue, Ernest Sconawah, Gladys Thompson, Hiram Smith, Lucinda Smith, Margaret Boise, Nelson Wallulatum, Viola Kalama, and Zelma Smith.
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Robert E. Moore, 1985-03-18