Hi Tammy, <br><br>Take a look at Barbra Meek's book <i>We are our language: An ethnography of language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community. </i>Working with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.<br>
<br>All the best, <br>Mark<br><br>-- <br>Dr. Mark Sicoli<br>Assistant Professor<br>University of Alaska, Fairbanks<br><br>Department of Anthropology<br>310 Eielson Building<br>P.O. Box 757720<br>Fairbanks, AK 99775-7720<br>
U.S.A.<br>Phone: (907) 474-6884<br>Fax: (907) 474-7453<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdc.aaia@verizon.net" target="_blank">tdc.aaia@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass language down? There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope to quote something.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Tammy DeCoteau<br>AAIA Native Language Program
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