Mary Haas

Documenter of Native American languages who recorded last speakers and trained the next generation.

Core Principles & Analysis

• She documented Tunica, Natchez, and Creek, often working with a language’s final fluent speakers.
• Her wartime Thai program produced the standard Thai-English dictionary of its era.
• At Berkeley she trained more than a hundred doctoral students in Americanist linguistics.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1910 – 1996