The Language Department has long remained an anonymous voice in Catawba Cultural Center playing field. Now after several years of research, we feel ready to show something for it. First, I would like to introduce us and give you a little background:

Claudia Y. Heinemann-Priest - Linguist

Master of Liberal Arts 1996 - Winthrop University

Specializing in Linguistics and Comparative Language Studies,
Thesis - Development of the Catawba Dictionary and its process

Bachelor of Arts (Dean's Honours List) 1992 - University ofWaterloo, Canada

Project Manager and Principal Investigator - July 1998 through June 1999 - "Language
Preservation through Oral History'' Project for Lannan Foundation

Speaker - June 1999 - Catawba Senior's Day - Catawba Indian Nation
Speaker - February 1999 - Winthrop University - Master Level Linguistics Class
Speaker - September 1998 - American Association Retired Persons, Rock Hill
Speaker - July 1998 - 14 the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences - Symposium "Rescuing the (Almost) Lost: The Role of Native American
Culture Centers" - The Catawba Language Program and the Implications for the
Catawba Indian Nation, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

Fellowship with the Museum of Indian Studies and Smithsonian Institute Archival Research Workshop - June 1997 - Washington D.C.

Interpreter/Chaperone - April 1998 through August 1998 - Catawba Nation Youth Exchange
Program with St. George's Pathfinder Group in Aschau, Germany
Archaeology assistant - 1998 - Cemetery Project, CCPP Archaeology Department

Instructor for:

Catawba Royalty Language Class
Catawba Language Staff Class
Catawba Indian Nation Headstart - Catawba Language Instructor for teachers of Headstart
Program
Catawba Language Evening Class
Catawba Seniors
Discoveries Daycare
Catawba Language for Youth
Catawba Language Club

Shelly J. Simmers - Linguist's Assistant

Also

Public Relations Coordinator

Member of Catawba Indian Nation, active in:

Catawba Tribal Dancing
Catawba Language Studies
Catawba Pottery
Catawba Women's Drum Group
Traditional Catawba Regalia Project
Assistant Instructor - Catawba Girls'Tribal Dancers

Assistant Project Manager and Assistant Principal Investigator - December 1998 through
June 1999 - "Language Preservation through Oral History'' Project for Lannan
Foundation

Fellowship with the South Carolina Institute for Community Scholars in the Traditional Arts - July 1999 - Defining Folk Art with focus on research, documentation, and photography with additional studies in grant writing. Gullah Culture Studies - Penn Center, St. Helena Island, South Carolina

Grant writing workshop - South Carolina Tourism Marketing Partnership Program - April
1999

Assistant Instructor for:

Catawba Royalty Language Class
Catawba Language Staff Class
Catawba Indian Nation Headstart - Catawba Language Assistant Instructor for teachers of
Headstart Program
Catawba Language Evening Class