# Darrell Kipp > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Darrell_Kipp > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Darrell_Kipp.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Kipp > Source revision: 1352339225 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Infobox officeholder | embed = | name = Darrell R. Kipp | native_name = [Blackfoot](/source/Blackfoot_language): '''Apiniokio Peta''' ("Morning Eagle") | native_name_lang = | image = Image:Robert Kapilow and Darrell Kipp.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Darrell Kipp (right) and composer [Robert Kapilow](/source/Robert_Kapilow) (left). | nickname = | office = [Blackfeet Nation](/source/Blackfeet_Nation) leader | term_start = | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|10|23}} | birth_place = [Browning, Montana](/source/Browning%2C_Montana) | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|11|21|1944|10|23}} | death_place = Browning, Montana | death_cause = | resting_place = | known_for = Revitalizing the [Blackfoot language](/source/Blackfoot_language) | battles = | office2 = | party = | education = [Eastern Montana College](/source/Montana_State_University_Billings), Ed.M, [Harvard Graduate School of Education](/source/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education), 1975, MFA, [Vermont College](/source/Vermont_College_of_Fine_Arts) | spouse = Roberta Ray Kipp | partner = | children = Darren Kipp | parents = Tom and Nora Kipp | relations = | blank1 = Mother tongue | data1 = | module = | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Darrell Robes Kipp''' ([Blackfeet](/source/Blackfeet_Nation), 23 October 1944 - 21 November 2013) was a [Native American](/source/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States) educator, documentary filmmaker, and historian.{{Cite news | last = Thompson | first = Scott | author2=Briana Wipf | title = Blackfeet language preservation advocate Darrell Kipp dies | work = Missoulian | accessdate = 2014-04-09 | date = 2013-11-25 | url = http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/blackfeet-cultural-leader-language-preservation-advocate-darrell-kipp-dies/article_5df6b5fe-5571-11e3-ab75-001a4bcf887a.html }} Kipp was an enrolled member of the [Blackfeet Nation](/source/Blackfeet_Nation) in Montana and was instrumental in teaching and preserving the [Blackfoot language](/source/Blackfoot_language) as the director of the Piegan Institute.[http://www.idahoptv.org/lc/amongthetribes/kipp.cfm Darrell Kipp: Among the Tribes – Idaho Public Television – Home]{{Cite video |publisher=Native Voices Public Television Workshop |people=Kipp, Darrell, Joe Fisher (Director) |title=Transitions: Destruction of a Mother Tongue |accessdate=2012-12-03 |date=1991 |url=http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/how/find/films/indian/t.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104164342/http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/how/find/films/indian/t.html |archivedate=2013-01-04 }} == Biography == Darrell Kipp was born into the [Blackfeet Nation](/source/Blackfeet_Nation) in [Browning, Montana](/source/Browning%2C_Montana), the site of their tribal headquarters. He graduated from Browning High School in 1962. During the [Vietnam War era](/source/Vietnam_War), he served as a Sergeant in B Company, 51st Signal Battalion [US Army](/source/United_States_Army) in Korea, along the Korean DMZ. He attended [Eastern Montana College](/source/Montana_State_University_Billings). He later earned two master's degrees, an Ed.M from the [Harvard Graduate School of Education](/source/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education) in 1975 and an MFA from [Vermont College](/source/Vermont_College_of_Fine_Arts). After working as a technical writer, in the early 1980s, Kipp returned to the [Blackfeet reservation](/source/Blackfeet_Indian_Reservation) to study [Piegan](/source/Piegan_language), the Blackfoot language. Learning that its practice had declined and many native speakers were elders, he and a small group of friends began to work on language revitalization. They first organized the Piegan Institute, a nonprofit devoted to the restoration and preservation of Native American languages. To develop fluent speakers, they also organized a center for language immersion studies, opening it in 1995 as the privately funded ''Nizipuhwahsin'' (or Real Speak) Center. It originally taught students in grades from kindergarten through eighth grade. With the institute, Kipp ultimately developed two [immersion schools](/source/Language_immersion) for teaching the Blackfoot language: Moccasin Flat School and Cuts Wood School. He served on the board of the [Endangered Language Fund](/source/Endangered_Language_Fund) and "inspired and encouraged many tribal communities to follow his lead to begin their own [language immersion](/source/language_immersion) schools."{{Cite news | title = Darrell Kipp (1944-2013) Obituary | work = [Great Falls Tribune](/source/Great_Falls_Tribune) | accessdate = 2014-04-09 | date = November 24, 2013 | url = http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greatfallstribune/obituary.aspx?pid=168147119 }} He served as a board member of Siyeh Development, the economic development organization of the Blackfoot tribe. He also served for seventeen years as an appellate judge on the tribal court.{{Cite news | last = Nijhuis | first = Michelle | title = Tribal immersion schools rescue language and culture | work = Christian Science Monitor | accessdate = 2014-04-09 | date = 2002-06-11 | url = https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0611/p11s01-legn.html }}{{Cite news | last = Ogden | first = Karen | title = Kipp's Trip: Why one Blackfoot Indian left the reservation, did tours in the Vietnam War and at Harvard, then moved back home to save his tribe's dying language | work = Ed Magazine: [Harvard Graduate School of Education](/source/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education) | accessdate = 2014-04-09 | date = 2008 | url = http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/ed/2008/fall/features/kipp.html }} In 2004 he joined composer [Robert Kapilow](/source/Robert_Kapilow) to write the [libretto](/source/libretto) for a large-scale [choral](/source/choral) and [orchestra](/source/orchestra) work to mark the [Lewis and Clark](/source/Lewis_and_Clark) Bicentennial. The work, entitled ''Summer Sun, Winter Moon'', was jointly commissioned by the [Kansas City Symphony](/source/Kansas_City_Symphony), the [Saint Louis Symphony](/source/Saint_Louis_Symphony), and the Louisiana Symphony, and was based on Kipp's libretto.{{Cite web |last = Perez |first = Hugo |title = Filmmaker Hugo Perez Recounts Unlikely Collaboration |work = Beyond the Box |accessdate = 2014-04-10 |date = 2009-10-30 |url = http://beyondthebox.org/filmmaker-hugo-perez-recounts-unlikely-collaboration/ |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130621023341/http://beyondthebox.org/filmmaker-hugo-perez-recounts-unlikely-collaboration/ |archivedate = 2013-06-21 }} It premiered in September 2004. A documentary of the event, sponsored by the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts), was made and aired on [public television](/source/public_television).{{Cite web|title=NEA ARTS: The NEA Supports The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial |work=[National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) |accessdate=2014-04-09 |url=http://www.nea.gov/about/Nearts/07-2005mayjul/LewisClark.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070628233530/http://www.nea.gov/about/Nearts/07-2005mayjul/LewisClark.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-06-28 }}{{Cite web | title = Summer Sun Winter Moon | work = PBS Programs | accessdate = 2014-04-09 | url = https://www.pbs.org/program/summer-sun-winter-moon/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155312/http://www.pbs.org/program/summer-sun-winter-moon/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 13, 2014 }} Kipp wrote the introduction to the second edition of the book ''Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians'' (compiled and translated by Clark Wissler and D. C. Duvall), published by [Bison Books](/source/Bison_Books) in 2008.{{Cite book | edition = 2nd | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | isbn = 9780803260238 | last = Wissler | first = Clark | title = Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians | location = Lincoln | series = Sources of American Indian oral literature | date = 2007 }} He received the Montana Governor's Humanities Award in 2005. He received the Trustee Award for Contributions to Montana History from the [Montana Historical Society](/source/Montana_Historical_Society) in 2006. ==See also== *[Blackfeet](/source/Blackfeet) *[Blackfoot language](/source/Blackfoot_language) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{wikiquote|Endangered languages}} *[https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0611/p11s01-legn.html Tribal immersion schools rescue language and culture] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140413145331/http://www.pieganinstitute.org/renewingways.html "American Indian Millennium: Renewing Our Ways for Future Generations"], by Darrell Kipp, Piegan Institute *[http://www.trailtribes.org/greatfalls/home.htm Darrell Kipp speaks about traditional and modernist values] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416090834/http://trailtribes.org/greatfalls/home.htm |date=2014-04-16 }}, video, Trail Tribes website {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kipp, Darrell}} Category:Blackfeet Tribe people Category:Native American language revitalization Category:Native American writers Category:American historians Category:American documentary filmmakers Category:1944 births Category:2013 deaths Category:People from Browning, Montana Category:Montana State University Billings alumni Category:Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni Category:Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Darrell Kipp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Kipp) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Kipp?action=history)). 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