Marissa Mastrangeli, a Linguistics major, received a Hilldale Fellowship for a project she will do this summer with Professor Monica Macaulay. Mastrangeli will create a census of all documents (vocabularies compiled by missionaries, glossaries used by U.S. Indian agents, word lists gathered by fur traders) held by the Wisconsin Historical Society which contain language material from any of the five native languages still spoken in the state (Menominee, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Oneida).
The (re-)discovery and cataloguing of these materials will contribute to on-going language preservation and revitalization projects by the tribes and by researchers at UW.