<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Lorretta Webster, fluent in Oneida, dies at 100</span><br><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">She was part of tribe's language revitalization project</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">BY SCOTT WILLIAMS • <a href="mailto:SWILLIAMS@GREENBAYPRESSGAZETTE.COM">SWILLIAMS@GREENBAYPRESSGAZETTE.COM</a> • SEPTEMBER 30, 2010</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">USA</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">HOBART — Lorretta Webster, one of the last people to learn Oneida as a first language, died Monday. She was 100.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The Hobart native worked with the Oneida Language Revitalization Program, started in 1996 after a survey found only 25 to 30 tribal elders were fluent in Oneida.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">"She never stopped using her language," said Inez Thomas, a coordinator at the Oneida Cultural Heritage Center. "She never quit."</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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