Dr. Joesph Dupris (Visiting Assitant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Linguistics) was featured in a recent聽彩民宝典 today article. The piece spotlights the consultation and translation work Dr. Dupris performed for , a short film about聽a pivotal moment in Modoc Nation history, set in Modoc homelands, and likely the first ever filmed in聽maqlaqsyals聽(a tribal name for Modoc and Klamath languages).
Regarding the film and the larger, attendant project of language revitalization, Dr. Dupris noted,聽鈥淲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.聽And at a local level, this helps to initiate a turn toward land, language and equity.鈥澛�
Dr. Joesph Dupris received his PhD from the University of Arizona in Linguistics and Anthropology in 2020. He聽is聽enrolled in the Klamath Tribes (the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin tribes of聽southern Oregon and northern California),聽and is of Modoc, Klamath, Paiute and Lakota descent.