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This website is a project of Bill (J. William) Lewis. Bill holds two degrees in linguistics, a B. A. from the University of California-Berkeley (1969) and an M. A. from the University of Victoria (2003). During the late 1960s, he visited Central America three times, looking for traces of the Lenca language in Honduras (1967) and living with the Lacandones of Chiapas at their settlements around the lakes of Najá, Metsabók, and Lacanjá (1968). During 1970-1 and 1973-6 he studied Tibetan and other Tibeto-Burman languages in Nepal and North India. These trips were financed largely by a career of teaching English as a second language, for example in Saudi Arabia (1969-70, 1982-88), Iran (1972-73, 1976-79), and Japan (1995-97). At the Warm Springs Reservation in central Oregon, he was the first official curriculum developer there, developing lessons for non-speaking tribal members in Warms Springs (River) Sahaptin and Wasco (Upriver Chinookan) (1993-94). A life-long Buddhist and student of different cultures, Bill has recently begun investigating shamanic practices among Peruvian peoples while working on a book of Shipibo ceremonial songs. |
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