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1 Harold D. Crook VITA Home address: 3138½ Clemans Rd, Cell (208) Clarkston, WA Business address: Division of Humanities Ext. (208) Lewis-Clark State College th Street Lewiston, ID address: hcrook@lcsc.edu Education: Ph.D (Linguistics) University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Dissertation title: The Phonology and Morphology of Nez Perce Stress. M.A (Linguistics) University of California, Los Angeles, CA. B.A (Humanities Linguistics) summa cum laude, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Awards: 2012 President's Award for Excellence in Diversity and Cross-Cultural Understanding, Lewis-Clark State College H.L. Talkington award for excellence in teaching Lewis-Clark State College. Research interests: The phonology and morphology of American Indian Languages. Language death and revitalization. Anthropological linguistics and the study of traditional narratives. Jordanian Arabic phonology, morphology, and oral history. Research Experience: 1997-present: Revitalization of Nez Perce, including impact of moribundity and language disuse upon the grammars of individual speakers present: Phonology and morphology of Nez Perce : Field research into the syntax and tonology of Bambara with six native speakers present: Jordanian Arabic phonology and morphology present: Methods for teaching Anglo-Saxon to undergraduates. 1

2 2008-present: Nez Perce Hymnody, retranscription and translation of traditional hymns. Governing Boards: Board of Directors, Washington-Idaho Symphony Board of Directors, Festival Dance Academy. Current Employment: Present Professor Lewis-Clark State College. Responsibilities include development and instruction of first, second and third year Nez Perce Language. Past Employment: Team Leader of the Nez Perce Language Program. Responsibilities included curriculum development; hiring, training, and supervising all personnel; staff development; grant writing; liaison with neighboring colleges and universities Teaching Fellow, College of Letters and Science, UCLA Director, Pre-Professional Advising Office, UCLA. Responsibilities included overseeing counseling services to undergraduates interested in medicine, law, optometry, veterinary science, pharmacy, and nursing Academic Counselor, College of Letters and Science, UCLA. Responsibilities included degree planning, counseling students in severe academic difficulty, and teaching study skills and time management Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, UCLA ESL Instructor, Yarmouk Cultural Center, Amman, Jordan Director, Student Task Force for Responsible use of Alcohol, Washington State University. Curriculum Development: ID 300Q "Economics of Good and Evil" an interdisciplinary course based on Tomas Sedlacek's book of this name, using great texts in the humanities to reflect upon ethical problems in economics. Humanities 350 "Values: Northwest Literature" a class based on Native American culture and literature from traditional tales to Sherman Alexie. Niimíipuum inmíiwit The Nez Perce Year. First-year textbook for instruction of Nez Perce language for ages high school, college, and adult, based upon the traditional 2

3 Titwáatit Stories. Second-year textbook for instruction of Nez Perce language for ages high school, college, and adult, based upon the Nez Perce myths of Archie Phinney, Harry Wheeler, Elizabeth Wilson. Píic'iqcix We speak together. Third-year textbook for developing fluency in Nez Perce conversation. Nez Perce Language materials for instruction of elementary grades 1-5. Language Laboratory Workbook I. History and Structure of English Workbook and series of Power Point slides. I am currently working on a new text to be used in Spring 2008 for English 431 "History and Structure of English." Producer and Language Content advisor for Nez Perce Language Video, an instructional DVD developed by the Nez Perce Tribe's Language Program. Content includes Nez Perce War Memorials & Stew and Fry Bread Making. The DVD is nearly complete. "Wéewtukeesnim Téecukwe: Hotel Lesson," Clearwater River Casino curriculum for hotel employees using Nez Perce Language for visitors. "Cuuy'em Fish," Lesson on fish species for Nez Perce Tribal Fisheries. Teaching Experience: Nez Perce Language , 109 "Elementary Nez Perce and Lab," Lewis-Clark State College 1998 present Nez Perce Language , 209 "Intermediate Nez Perce Language," LCSC 1999 present. Nez Perce Language "Conversational Nez Perce." LCSC 2001 present. English 261 "Mythologies," LCSC 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015 English 292 "Native American Oral Literatures for Non-Majors," LCSC 2003, English 390 "Bible as Literature," LCSC 2002, 2008 English 392 "Readings in Anglo-Saxon," LCSC 2002, 2003, 2006, English 392 "Language Teaching Methods," LCSC English 431 "History and Structure of English," LCSC 2002, 2004, English 441 "Linguistics," LCSC 2013,

4 English 492 "Readings in Beowulf," LCSC English 492 "Linguistics" LCSC 2013, English 473 Native American Oral Literature, LCSC 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014 English 496 History of English, University of Idaho Humanities 351 "Values: Northwest Literature." ID 300Q "Economics of Good and Evil" 2015 (Spring and Fall) Nez Perce 101, 102, 103 "Elementary Nez Perce Language" Northwest Indian College, Lapwai and Kamiah Learning Centers, 2005 present (this as part of duties as Team Leader of the Nez Perce Tribe's Language Program). English 292ST Freshman Seminar "Nez Perce Oral Narratives" UCLA Supervision of classes for the Nez Perce Tribe, including instruction in Lapwai High School and Lapwai Elementary School. Teaching assistant for classes in introductory linguistics, introduction to English vocabulary, and historical linguistics. Compressed Video Instruction and Classes Shared between LCSC, UI, and WSU: I adapted the Nez Perce Language courses at Lewis-Clark State College for distance learning so that class sections at the University of Idaho and Washington State University participate together with the section on the LCSC Campus. This was the first class ever shared between all three campuses that I am aware of. Service to the LCSC Academic Community through Committee Work: LCSC, Chair-Elect, Faculty Senate LCSC, Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee LCSC, Compensation Review Committee LCSC, Campus Strategic Enrollment Committee LCSC, Chair, Standing Tenure and Promotion Review Committee LCSC, Prior Adult Learning Committee present Lewis-Clark State College, Native American Advisory Board present LCSC, Creator of and advisor for Nez Perce Language Minor. 4

5 LCSC, Tenure committee for Rik Brosten LCSC, President's Strategic Planning Committee & 2013 LCSC, Chair, Talkington Teaching Award Committee LCSC, Chair, Administrative Procedures LCSC, Chair, Budget Liaison Committee LCSC, Chair, Curriculum Committee LCSC, Chair, Faculty Senate LCSC, Tenure committee for Nancy Lee-Painter LCSC, Tenure committee for Wendy Shuttleworth LCSC, Tenure committee for Misty Urban LCSC, Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee LCSC representative to the regional Native American Studies Group (including tribes, WSU, UI, LCSC, Northwest Indian College, North Idaho College) LCSC, Compensation Review Committee LCSC Humanities, Hiring committee for Publishing Arts pos LCSC, Hiring committee for academic dean LCSC, Chair Elect, Faculty Senate LCSC Humanities, Hiring committee for Medievalist position LCSC, Tenure committee for Keegan Schmidt LCSC, Chair, Student Affairs Committee LCSC, Chair, Tenure committee for James Tarter , LCSC Humanities, Governance and Personnel Committee LCSC, General Education Committee LCSC, Curriculum Committee. 5

6 Other Service to the LCSC Academic Community: Dancer in and promoter of LCSC dance programs Composed the MOU between LCSC and the Nez Perce Tribe, outlining the Tribe's retention of copyright ownership of curriculum while granting the College use of those materials present Mentored twelve seniors in their capstone projects present Photography for the LCSC Jazz Band and other events for LCSC Humanities Division, including promotional advertisements present Warrior Athletic Association, sponsor of a student athlete scholarship in Cross-Country Restarted the Safe Zones Program with Leah Hyman and Andy Hanson to promote tolerance of others at LCSC, particularly of gays and lesbians. Safe Zones advisory committee Member of discussion panel following the Laramie Project play LCSC Classical Guitar Ensemble with Tim Bell and Bill Johnson Directed the Nez Perce language play "Tim'néepe At the Heart" with a complete Native cast. 3 performances Assisting with the Native American Club and Native American Awareness Week. Service to the Nez Perce Tribe: Team Leader, Nez Perce Tribe Language Program, Lapwai, ID. The following activities are included: Producing new curriculum for the Tribe and College Liaison between the Tribe and higher education Liaison with the Tribe's Circle of Elders Writing grant proposals Supervising several language coordinators and elder-teachers Evaluating program progress and planning future goals Teaching at beginning Nez Perce at Northwest Indian College in Lapwai Documenting Nez Perce Language with elders Mentoring students in elder discussion sessions Developing the certification policies for the Tribe and the State of Idaho in Nez Perce Language Teaching K-12. Preparing proposals for allocation grant funding for Language Program. Teaching in After-School Programs at Lapwai and Kamiah with elementary children ,

7 2007 Assisted with and coordinated volunteers for the 13 th Annual Northwest Native American Basket weaver's Conference at the Clearwater River Casino Organized and currated a series of five lectures by three scholars on Nez Perce music Provided twice-weekly classes in Phonetics, Phonology, and conversational Nez Perce to Nez Perce Tribe's Language Program staff. Service to the General Community: Foster parent, Asotin County, WA. Grants and Fellowships: "Phinney Project" Retranscription and annotation of thirteen stories from of Archie Phinney's Nez Perce Texts. Idaho Humanities Council $1,950. "Nez Perce Conversational Patterns." Administration for Native Americans: Languages Phase 2. Documenting Nez Perce conversation, developing curriculum based on the patterns, and developing software to support the curriculum. Two year grant - $185, Nez Perce Language Program Phase III: Immersion Recruitment, Preparation, Transition. Association for Native Americans. Seventeen month grant of a total of $370,000 to complete the initial stages of developing an elementary immersion program in Lapwai Nez Perce Language Program Phase III: Immersion Recruitment, Preparation, Transition. Association for Native Americans. Oneyear grant of a total of $190,000 to provide for the initial stages of developing an elementary immersion program in Lapwai Nez Perce Language Program Phase II: Inter-Linking our Generations through Our Language. Association for Native Americans. Threeyear grant of total of $450,000 to provide comprehensive language instruction to all generations of Nez Perce tribal members Nez Perce Folklore and Oral History - Sven and Astrid Liljeblad Endowment Fund: Grants in Great Basin Studies. An investigation into what remains of the old knowledge of folklore with a pilot study of the Nez Perce oral history of the early 20 th century Nez Perce Dialectology Melville Jacobs Grant. Publications: 7

8 2013 Crook, Harold and Michael B Wasson, eds. hey'úuxchacwal kaa palx c: Ten Nez Perce Stories from Archie and Mary Phinney. Published by LCSC. Forward by William Willard Becoming Your Own Academic Doctor, in Bruce Barbee, The UCLA Guide for Student Academic Success On Nez Perce Nouns with Irregular Metrical Behavior or Why Grizzly Bear has Horrible Stress, in Survey of California and Other Indian Languages: Report 9, Proceedings of the Hokan-Penutian Conference. In preparation: Niimíipuum inmíiwit The Nez Perce Year. First-year textbook for instruction of Nez Perce language for ages high school, college, and adult, based upon the traditional Titwáatit Stories. Second-year textbook for instruction of Nez Perce language for ages high school, college, and adult, based upon the Nez Perce myths of Archie Phinney, Harry Wheeler, Elizabeth Wilson. Píic'iqcix We speak together. Third-year textbook for developing fluency in Nez Perce conversation. "NUMIPU TIMES Retranscription and Translation of the 1840 Nez Perce primer by Asa Bowen Smith" with Anne Keary and Nez Perce Elders. Nez Perce Hymns, Retranscription and translation of twelve Nez Perce hymns for use by churches on the Reservation. Nez Perce Grammar, Lincom Grammars, Lincom Publications, Switzerland. "The Phonology and Morphology of Nez Perce Stress" "Diachronic Explanations of Nez Perce Noun Stem Asymmetries" "A Pedagogical Grammar of Nez Perce" Book review of "Studies in Athapaskan Stress," in Journal of Anthropological Linguistics. History and Structure of the English Language, a textbook. Conference Presentations: "On Nez Perce Nouns with Irregular Metrical Behavior or Why "Grizzly Bear" has Horrible Stress,' " (1994), Hokan-Penutian Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. 8

9 "Developing a Response to the Problems of Academic Dismissal and Retention," (1995), Conference of University of California Academic Counselors, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. "Phonetic Correlates of Nez Perce Stress," (1996), Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, California. "Nez Perce Noun Stress," (1996), American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California. "Nez Perce Verb Stress," (1996), Western Conference on Linguistics, Santa Cruz, California. "Making Policy Decisions Affecting the Future Phonology of a Moribund Language," (1999), Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, California. "Development and Progress of the Nez Perce Language Program," (1999), Tamastalikt Cultural Center, Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon. "Vocalic Hiatus in Nez Perce," (2000), Linguistic Society of America, Chicago. "Diachronic Explanations for Stem Asymmetries in Nez Perce," (2000), Workshop for American Indian Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara. "Development and Status of the Nez Perce Language Program," (2001), Conference on Plateau Languages, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. "Making Culture a Vital Part of Foreign/Heritage Language Instruction," PIE Conference, October 2002, Lewiston High School, Lewiston, ID. "The Nez Perce Frybread Lesson Adapting New Material for Your Language," (2003) Conference on Heritage Oregon Languages Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR. "Developing a College Level Indian Language Program," (2005), Conference on Plateau Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. "How to Teach Glottalized Stops," (2006), Sahaptian Language Conference, Heritage College, Toppenish, WA. "Enhancing Language Partnerships between Native Peoples and Institutions of Higher Education," (2006), Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America - CELCNA, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. "Nez Perce Detransitivization: Indefinites, Generics, Defocus, and Possessives," (2006), Workshop for American Indian Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara. 9

10 "Bringing back Phinney's Stories," (2009) Naami Tiicam, Naami Waq'iswit Plateau Conference, May 11-13, Moscow, Idaho. Some Additional Presentations: "Language, Computers, and Optimality Theory How your brain determines the best way to pronounce a word," LCSC Honors Program Discussion Series (2001). Review of P.L. Bergens Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. LCSC Library's Book Discussion Series (2002). Laramie Project co-discussion of the drama and its implications for campus life following the presentation of the play (2006). "Nez Perce Language Preservation" Nez Perce National Historic Park, 50 th Annual Speaker Series, October 25, 2015 "Storytelling a Nez Perce Tradition" LCSC Center for Arts and History, December 10, Language Fieldwork Experience: Nez Perce, Arabic, Bambara, Cebuano, Wolof, Idoma, Lugbara Professional Information: Languages: Arabic, Bambara, Nez Perce, Italian Professional Organizations: Linguistic Society of America Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 10

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