Visiting Assistant Professor Joesph Dupris featured in CU 麻豆影院 Today
Dr. Joesph Dupris (Visiting Assitant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Linguistics) was featured in a recent听CU 麻豆影院 today article. The piece spotlights the consultation and translation work Dr. Dupris performed for , a short film about听a pivotal moment in Modoc Nation history, set in Modoc homelands, and likely the first ever filmed in听maqlaqsyals听(a tribal name for Modoc and Klamath languages).
Regarding the film and the larger, attendant project of language revitalization, Dr. Dupris noted,听鈥淲e're using our language in the same land that we were exiled from. Those actors are helping to bring language back into our lands, while spreading it across the nation.听And at a local level, this helps to initiate a turn toward land, language and equity.鈥澨
Dr. Joesph Dupris received his PhD from the University of Arizona in Linguistics and Anthropology in 2020. He听is听enrolled in the Klamath Tribes (the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin tribes of听southern Oregon and northern California),听and is of Modoc, Klamath, Paiute and Lakota descent.
