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A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone

By Andrew Cowell, Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder
I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language.

When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to learn about the Indigenous language of the Boulder and Denver area, Arapaho. The Arapaho people had occupied the area for many years until they were forced to leave in the 1860s.

I first visited…The Conversation


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