Indigenous Thinkers

PUBLICATIONS: 

Sims, C. P. et.al. (1982).  Aak’ume’e Ubetaan’i (Acoma Stories), Aak’um’e Dzeeni (Acoma Topical Dictionary), and Aak’ume Usum’eeshtaan’i (Acoma Teachers’ Resource Book).  Acoma Title VII Bilingual Program, Sky City Community School, Acoma Pueblo, NM. 

Hakes, J. & Sims, C.P. (1978).  Curriculum Improvement for Pueblo Indian Students:  A Pilot Study.  All Indian Pueblo Council, Albuquerque, NM.  An ERIC publication (ED 190-283). 

Sims, C.P. & Valiquette, H. (1990).  More on male and female speech in (Acoma and Laguna) Keresan.  International Journal of American Linguistics.  Vol. 56, No. 1, Pp162-166.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press. 

Sims, C.P. (1993).  Native language assessment of Pueblo Indian teachers in bilingual education.  Unpublished paper prepared for the New Mexico Bilingual Advisory Committee, New Mexico State Department of Education Bilingual Education Unit. 

Sims, C.P.  (1996).   Native Language Communities:  A Descriptive Study of Two Community Efforts to Preserve their Native Languages.  Washington, DC:  National Indian Policy Center, The George Washington University. 

Boynton, D. & Sims, C.P.  (1997).  A Community-based Plan for Acoma Language Retention and Revitalization.  Unpublished paper prepared for the Pueblo of Acoma.

Sims, C.P. (1998).  Community-based efforts to preserve native languages:  A descriptive study of the Karuk tribe of northern California.  In Teresa McCarty and Ofelia Zepeda (Eds.).  Joshua Fishman (Gen. Ed.).  Indigenous language use and change in the Americas.  International Journal of the Sociology of Language.  Berlin/New York:  Mouton.