Wiichmiil? (help me)

Victoria Bomberry vbomberry at UCDAVIS.EDU
Fri Nov 8 20:59:43 UTC 2002


Dear Bruce,
         The Lenape/Delaware Tribe in Northeastern Oklahoma has a language
program.  They produced a CD I believe sometime in the past five
years.  You can find them on the web.
         Good luck.
Victoria Bomberry
At 03:38 PM 11/8/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Kuwiinganeewalohmwa (greeting in Lunaape/Delaware)
>I am new to the List Serve and I am hoping this email reaches all those on the
>list - if not would someone be so kind as to forward this message.
>
>My name is Bruce Stonefish, I am Lunaape from the Delaware Nation (a Lunaape
>reserve) in Canada.
>I am a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  I am
>currently thinking of doing my doctoral work in looking at the preservation
>efforts of the Lunaape Language - I am generally concerned with the
>presevation of the cultural philosophy of the language.  I am hoping through
>this list serve that I might find some networking resources.  I am looking for
>peoples interested in Lunaape/Delaware Language preservation.  I do not have a
>linguistical background and I am also looking for some key resources that
>discuss Native language preservation - theory, practices, etc.
>If you know of any reading that you feel may be essential to my work could you
>please lend a hand in forwarding them to me. (Articles, author, researchers,
>books, etc)  I am looking for any research/discourse pertaining to cutlural
>worldview survival and revitalization through language.  I am sure that those
>of other languages can help me in enormous ways.
>You can email me directly at stonefbr at gse.harvard.edu
>Anushiik
>Bruce Stonefish
>Lunaape



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