Richard Grounds - Princeton Theological Seminary

Richard Grounds

Executive Director of the Yuchi Language Project

Dr. Richard A. Grounds (Ph.D. Theology, 1995) has worked with Yuchi Elders to create new young speakers over the last 25 years, and currently serves as Executive Director of the Yuchi Language Project. Previously, he taught at St. Olaf College and in the Anthropology Department at the University of Tulsa. Dr. Grounds has presented on Indigenous language issues at many universities and colleges and has long promoted Indigenous language issues at the American Academy of Religion, the World Council of Churches, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Grounds’ recent works include a chapter on Yuchi language revitalization in the face of intellectual colonialism (in Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives, University of Nebraska Press, 2021) and a chapter co-written with his daughter “Yuchi: Family Language without A Language Family,” in Bringing Our Languages Home, ed. By Leanne Hinton (2013). Dr. Grounds received the Humanities in Education Award from the Oklahoma Humanities Council for 2013.