Native peoples ask Jesuits to help preserve language (fwd link)

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Native peoples ask Jesuits to help preserve language

May. 23, 2011
By Michael Swan, Catholic News Service
CA

TORONTO -- As Canada's Jesuits remembered their first steps on North
American soil and the welcome they received from Mi'kmaq people 400
years ago, the Mi'kmaq asked for a favor.

"Maybe it's time for the Mi'kmaq to ask for your help in preserving
our language," Grand Keptin Antle Denny told three dozen Canadian
Jesuits and about 100 guests who had gathered to mark the 1611 landing
of two Jesuits at Port Royal in what is now Nova Scotia.

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