Donna Pierite of the Tunica-Biloxi 

Donna M. Pierite is a language and cultural lifeways instructor for the Tunica-Biloxi Language and  Culture Revitalization Program (LCRP). She is responsible for lesson-planning, teaching and directing  educational assignments to promote the learning of the Tunica and Biloxi languages and culture. Donna  collaborates with Tulane University linguists in the Kuhpani Yoyani Luhchi Yoroni (Tunica Language  Working Group, KYLY) developing Tunica language foundational resources including linguistic texts,  manuals, curricula and pedagogical materials. She is a Louisiana State certified educator who has taught  more than thirty-three years in Orleans and Avoyelles Parish as well as adjunct professor of French and  Spanish at Louisiana State University in Alexandria. In addition to teaching French, Spanish and English  as a second language, Donna has studied and taught Tunica since the 1970’s.