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Ofelia Zepeda is a member
of the Tohono O'odham

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Nation of Southern Arizona.

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She was born and raised
in Stanfield, Arizona.

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She is a Regents' Professor
of Linguistics and recipient

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of the MacArthur
Fellowship for a work

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in American Indian language
education, maintenance,

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and recovery.

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She has published works in
the Tohono O'odham language

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and in English.

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Her books of poetry, "Ocean
Power: Poems from the Desert."

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And I won't try
to pronounce the--

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Tohono [? Chul ?] side of
this title, it eludes me.

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But the translation
is Earth Movements.

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She's a co-editor of "Home
Places," a celebration

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of 25 years of publication
of the Sun Track series,

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and of Home: Native
People in the Southwest.

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Her poetry is appeared
in numerous anthologies

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and journals.

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Her poems also appear
in the permanent exhibit

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"Home: Native People in the
Southwest" at the Heard Museum

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in Phoenix.

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Dr. Zepeda is a series
editor at the University

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of Arizona's press "Sun Tracks,"
Native American Book series.

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Her areas of
teaching and research

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include introduction to
Tohono O'odham language,

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the structure of Tohono O'odham
issues of language domination

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and revitalization, and
Native American literature.

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She published the first grammar
book of the O'odham and Tohono

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O'odham grammar.

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Her scholarship includes
numerous published articles

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on the status of American,
Native American languages,

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language policy and planning,
and Native American linguistics

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and education.

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She is co-founder and director
of the American Indian Language

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Development Institute, one of
the longest running indigenous

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language institutes with
international reputation

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in training educators of
American Native American

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languages.

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Please welcome Ofelia.

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[APPLAUSE]

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