Darrell Robes Kipp (Blackfeet, 23 October 1944 - 21 November 2013) was a Native American educator, documentary filmmaker  and historian. Kipp was an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana , and was instrumental in teaching and preserving the Blackfoot language as the Director of the Piegan Institute.Darrell Kipp: Among the Tribes - Idaho Public Television - Home He attended Eastern Montana College. He later earned two master's degrees, an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1975 and a MFA from Vermont College. After working as a technical writer, in the early 1980s  Kipp returned to the Blackfeet reservation to study Piegan, the Blackfoot language. Learning that its practice had declined and many native speakers were elders, he and a small group of friends began to work on language revitalization. They first organized the Piegan Institute, a nonprofit devoted to the restoration and preservation of Native American languages. To develop fluent speakers, they also organized a center for language immersion studies, opening it in 1995 as the privately funded Nizipuhwahsin (or Real Speak) Center. It originally taught students in grades from kindergarten through eighth grade. With the Institute, Kipp ultimately developed two immersion schools for teaching the Blackfoot language: Moccasin Flat School and Cuts Wood School. He served on the Board of the Endangered Language Fund , and "inspired and encouraged many tribal communities to follow his lead to begin their own language immersion schools." He served as a board member of Siyeh Development, the economic development organization of the Blackfoot tribe. He also served for seventeen years as  appellate judge on the tribal court.
Darrell Robes Kipp (Blackfeet, 23 October 1944 - 21 November 2013) was a Native American educator, documentary filmmaker , and historian. Kipp was an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana and was instrumental in teaching and preserving the Blackfoot language as the Director of the Piegan Institute.Darrell Kipp: Among the Tribes - Idaho Public Television - Home He attended Eastern Montana College. He later earned two master's degrees, an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1975 and an MFA from Vermont College. After working as a technical writer, in the early 1980s , Kipp returned to the Blackfeet reservation to study Piegan, the Blackfoot language. Learning that its practice had declined and many native speakers were elders, he and a small group of friends began to work on language revitalization. They first organized the Piegan Institute, a nonprofit devoted to the restoration and preservation of Native American languages. To develop fluent speakers, they also organized a center for language immersion studies, opening it in 1995 as the privately funded Nizipuhwahsin (or Real Speak) Center. It originally taught students in grades from kindergarten through eighth grade. With the Institute, Kipp ultimately developed two immersion schools for teaching the Blackfoot language: Moccasin Flat School and Cuts Wood School. He served on the Board of the Endangered Language Fund and "inspired and encouraged many tribal communities to follow his lead to begin their own language immersion schools." He served as a board member of Siyeh Development, the economic development organization of the Blackfoot tribe. He also served for seventeen years as an appellate judge on the tribal court.
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