Job title:
2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Bio/CV:
Claudia Iron Hawk / Thaopi Waste Win (she/her) is a D/Lakota linguist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) in South Dakota. She has a bachelor’s in Anthropology & Native American and Indigenous studies from UMN and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. She is an Indigenous language revitalization advocate who speaks and works with her heritage language D/Lakotiya.
Research interests:
Claudia Iron Hawk focuses on language revitalization and acquisition methods for her work in D/Lakotiya within a linguistic lens and community-based framework. Iron Hawk has recently explored Indigenous language reclamation and awareness through creative writing and digital/visual art.