CU Researchers Help Native Speakers Save History (fwd link)
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CU Researchers Help Native Speakers Save History
By Brittany Anas, (Boulder) Camera
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ― The Wichita language, once spoken by thousands, has
one remaining voice.
Doris Jean Lamar McLemore, 80, considers it a happenstance that she -- the
daughter of an Indian mother and white father -- has become the guardian of her
tribe's language that is precariously close to extinction.
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