Mauricio J. Mixco Collection of Kiliwa Sound Recordings

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Mauricio J. Mixco Collection of Kiliwa Sound Recordings

1966-1988 (majority 1966-1969)

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC30XS

Sound recordings of texts, many published as 'Kiliwa Texts: "When I have Donned My Crest of Stars"' (Anthropological Papers 107, University of Utah Press, 1983). Descriptions indicate page numbers where transcription, segmentation, glossing, and translation of these texts can be located.

15 master reel tapes

Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658726

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Ochurte, Rufino, 189?-1977

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Rufino Ochurte (Kiliwa) was a research consultant known for speaking and preserving the Kiliwa language, which is defined by UNESCO as a critically endangered language. Born in approximately the 1890s, he lived in Arroyo de León, Baja California, Mexico until his death in 1977. He worked with researchers including anthropologist Ralph C. Michelsen and linguist Mauricio Mixco as a consultant on Kiliwa language and culture. The subtitle of Mixco's book Kiliwa Texts, “When I Have Donned My Crest of...

Mixco, Mauricio J.

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Mauricio J. Mixco is a linguist and professor emeritus of anthropological linguistics at the University of Utah. His career has focused on endangered Indigenous languages in the U.S. and Mexico, including the Kiliwa, Mandan, and Shoshone languages. Mixco was born in El Salvador and moved to California as a child. Mixco received a BA in linguistics in 1965, and a PhD in linguistics in 1971, from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was supervised by Prof. Mary R. Haas titled ...