IIK-CDRIL research and education activities focus around several major, interrelated topical areas:
Language Documentation
IIK-CDRIL researchers provide public access to the current results of their ongoing projects. The IIK-CDRIL Dictionary Portal allows the visitor to work with IIK-CDRIL dictionaries for five languages. The IIK-CDRIL Northern Caddoan Linguistic Text Corpora Portal is a gateway to texts and narratives in Arikara, Skiri Pawnee, and South Band Pawnee.
Culture History
Several past IIK-CDRIL projects focus on the history and culture of specific Plains tribes:
- Sioux documentary history
- Sioux-Assiniboine-Stoney culture history, as reflected in dialect differentiation, social movements, and historical traditions
- Arikara history and culture
Music Documentation
The documentation of tribal musical traditions is part of two larger IIK-CDRIL projects.
The two studies:
- Arikara music, a project based largely on contemporary field recordings but including historical recordings
- Sioux music, a project based on field recordings of George Sword, an Oglala, made at the beginning of the twentieth century
Material Culture
As part of a larger documentary and research project, research has also focused on Pawnee material culture, utilizing written documentation from earlier in the century combined with the contemporary study of museum specimens.
