Sarah Grey Thomason

Sarah Grey Thomason has worked with the Salish–Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee since 1981, compiling a dictionary and text collection in collaboration with tribal elders. Thomason, who is currently co-authoring a textbook on endangered languages for Cambridge University Press, is the William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan and is a former president of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

Recent Stories

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.