Pliny Earle Goddard
Pliny Earle Goddard (November 24, 1869 – July 12, 1928) was an American
linguist and
ethnologist noted for his extensive documentation of the languages and cultures of the
Athabaskan peoples of western North America. His early research, carried out under the auspices of the
University of California, Berkeley, focused on the
Hupa and adjacent Athabaskan groups in northwestern California. After moving to New York in 1909 at the invitation of
Franz Boas his scope expanded to include the Athabaskans of the Southwest, Canada, and Alaska. During the 1910s and 1920s. as Boas's junior colleague at the
American Museum of Natural History and
Columbia University, Goddard played a major role in creating the academic infrastructure for American Indian linguistics and anthropology in North America.
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