title: Ray Huaute
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affiliation: "University of California, Los Angeles"
position: "Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies"

Ray Huaute

Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies · University of California, Los Angeles

Ray Huaute is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at UCLA, with a PhD in Linguistics from UC San Diego. His work documents the Desert dialect of Cahuilla, a critically endangered language of Southern California, and examines how linguistic research and Indigenous research methodologies can support language reclamation. He serves on the board of Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.