Thanks Phil<div> for posting these articles on ILAT, on the revival of the Wendat(Huron) language.</div><div>This has been an ongoing and HUGE project.</div><div>Our sister Wendat nation in Quebec has the enthusiasm from its youth</div>
<div>to revive language, just as they have revived ceremonies of our ancestors.</div><div>If ANY dormant language can be revived, the Wendat of Quebec will do it</div><div>and do it so well that its going to be another BIG success story for linguists</div>
<div>all around the world to be encouraged by.</div><div><br></div><div>I only hope our Wyandot people in Oklahoma and Kansas and Michigan</div><div>will eventually understand its value. Assimilation unfortunately runs so deep</div>
<div>it will require an awakening from a deep <b>assimimuted</b> state. </div><div>((<i>how do you like that word</i>?))</div><div><br></div><div>Today...It means educating our youth of what we had, and have lost.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Until people feel a craving for healthy food they'll simply eat junk food.</div><div>and our indigenous languages will only be a side salad.</div><div><br></div><div>ske:noh</div><div>Richard Zane Smith</div>
<div>Wyandotte, Oklahoma</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Linguist gives voice to ancestral Huron language<br>
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BY MARK CARDWELL, SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE<br>
MARCH 26, 2010<br>
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WENDAKE – As a girl growing up in Norwalk, Conn., an hour’s drive<br>
north of New York City, Megan Lukaniec wasn’t all that interested in<br>
her aboriginal heritage or the postage stamp-size reserve near far-off<br>
Quebec City, where her father’s Huron-Wendat mother was from.<br>
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But as the main linguist and chief trainer at the heart of the Yawenda<br>
Project, the 25-year-old is now literally giving voice to the rebirth<br>
of her ancestral language.<br>
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“It’s a real honour for me to be involved like this – but it’s a lot<br>
of hard work, too,” Lukaniec said.<br>
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Soon after coming here in 2006 to study the Wendat language on a<br>
one-year fellowship from Dartmouth University in New Hampshire – where<br>
she did an undergraduate degree in a Native American program that “got<br>
me interested in my roots” – Lukaniec met Linda Sioui and other<br>
residents in Wendake who were busily planning the Yawenda<br>
language-revitalization project.<br>
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Access full article below:<br>
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