Blackfoot Words

Credits

The language and lexical forms in this database belong to the Blackfoot people. Blackfoot Words was created with the support of many people and groups.

How to cite

For citations in academic papers, please cite the paper which describes the database structure:

  • Weber, Natalie, Tyler Brown, Joshua Celli, McKenzie Denham, Hailey Dykstra, Nico Kidd, Rodrigo Hernandez-Merlin, Evan Hochstein, Pinyu Hwang, Diana Kulmizev, Hannah Morrison, Matty Norris, and Lena Venkatraman. 2023. A lexical database of Blackfoot legacy sources. Language Resources and Evaluation. Online access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-022-09631-2

To cite the database itself (the schema and data), use the following:

Maintainer

The project is maintained by Natalie Weber.

Current contributors

  • Jem Burch, YC ’25 (2022-present)
  • Leander He YC ’26 (2023-present)
  • Corine Huang YC ’26 (2023-present)
  • Pearl Hwang YC ’23 (2021, 2023-present)
  • Alara O’Bryan YC ’25 (2022-present)

Previous contributors

  • Isobel Anthony YC ’20, (2020)
  • Charelle Brown YC ’20 (2020)
  • Tyler Brown YC ’23 (2020-2021)
  • Josh Celli YC ’21 (2020-2021)
  • Hailey Dykstra YC ’23 (2020-2023)
  • Priscilla Ehrgood YC ’24 (2022-2023)
  • Madeline Gupta YC ’25 (2022)
  • Mara Gutierrez YC ’25 (2022-2023)
  • Rodrigo Hernandez-Merlin YC ’22 (2020-2021)
  • Evan Hochstein YC ’23 (2021-2022)
  • Paige Johnson YC ’20 (2020)
  • Nico Kidd YC ’22 (2020-2022)
  • Diana Kulmizev YC ’23 (2021-2023)
  • Lydia Lee YC ’23 (2022)
  • Shayley Martin YC ’22 (2020)
  • Hannah Morrison YC ’23 (2020-2021)
  • Matty Norris YC ’22 (2021-2022)
  • Hema Patel YC ’23, (2020)
  • Evan Roberts YC ’23 (2020-2021)
  • Alex Smith, ULeth (2021)
  • Isaiah Suchman YC ’23 (2022-2023)
  • Taylor Triplett YC ’23 (2022-2023)
  • Lena Venkatraman YC ’22 (2021)

Support

Blackfoot Lab at Yale University

Many of the contributors are part of the Blackfoot Lab at Yale. You can see some of our other projects on our website.

Yale Spinup

The database itself is deployed on Yale Spinup, which hosts secure, self-service resources in the cloud. Tenyo Grozev at Yale Spinup was invaluable in the support he gave us while setting up this portion of the project.

NocoDB

The current viewing interface uses NocoDB, a free and open-source no-code platform that turns relational databases into smart spreadsheets.