Society for the Study of the
Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
Annual Meeting
The 2026 Meetings will be held in two modalities:
In-person jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) at the Marriott New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 8 to 11, 2026, and online meeting via Zoom on January 17 to 18, 2026.
SSILA News
Keep up to date with the SSILA News! The News/Noticas page has announcements from the Society and members, In Memoriam, Calls, and much more. You can search by tags or read in chronological order.
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Interested in becoming a member? Find out more about SSILA membership at the link below.
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We encourage photographs from SSILA members on these pages.
If you are interested in submitting your photographs of past or current SSILA meetings, or of a textile from the Americas, please visit our submission form here.
Photo Credits
Banner image: Myaamia Ribbonwork, alenia aataahsema. Man's Leggings. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Karen L. Baldwin.
Annual Meeting Image: Jennifer Johnson co-presents (with Jack Martin, not pictured) “In Haas’s Footsteps: Documenting Muskogee Oral History and Conversation,” in the SSILA Organized Session Reclaiming and Expanding Early Work on the Native Languages of Louisiana and the South, 2020 Winter Meetings, Bulbancha/New Orleans. Photo by Mary Linn, SSILA Secretary/Treasurer emerita..
News/Noticias Image: An early SSILA newsletter showing table of contents. Photo courtesy Mary Linn, SSILA Secretary/Treasurer emerita.
Membership image: From left to right, Zach O'Hagan, Carmen Jany, Greg Antono, and Martin Kohlberger, 2020 Winter Meetings, Bulbancha/New Orleans. Photo by Mary Linn, SSILA Secretary/Treasurer emerita..