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If the will is there, Indigenous languages can still flourish</h1><div class="" style="font-size:7pt;display:inline;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">BY <div class="" style="font-size:8pt;display:inline">
<span class="" style="font-size:8pt"><span class="" style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/19012" style="font-size:7pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none">ÂPIHTAWIKOSISÂN</a></span></span></div>
</div><span style="color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px"> | </span><span class="" style="font-size:7pt;display:inline;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">OCTOBER 3, 2013</span><br>
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"Years ago while visiting his grandma Lucinda Robbins in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, CEO Don Thornton purchased a Cherokee-English Dictionary written by a professor from the local University.</p><p style="font-size:9pt;padding:5px 0pt;margin:0px;list-style:none;line-height:15pt;text-transform:none">
When he showed the dictionary to his grandma, she commented in a frail but angry voice: “That man used to come to my house for three years asking how to say words in Cherokee.  Pretty soon it would be lists of phrases.  I fixed his lists for three years and all I wanted was a copy of the finished work but never received one.”</p>
<p style="font-size:9pt;padding:5px 0pt;margin:0px;list-style:none;line-height:15pt;text-transform:none">Don flipped through the pages of the entire dictionary looking for her name but Lucinda Robbin’s name was nowhere to be found.  <strong style="font-size:9pt;line-height:15pt">She was not credited for her work, not only that, she was never paid and did not even receive a copy of the work</strong>."</p>
<p style="font-size:9pt;padding:5px 0pt;margin:0px;list-style:none;line-height:15pt;text-transform:none"></p><p style="font-size:9pt;padding:5px 0pt;margin:0px;list-style:none;line-height:15pt">Access full article below: </p>
<div><a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/apihtawikosisan/2013/10/if-will-there-indigenous-languages-can-still-flourish">http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/apihtawikosisan/2013/10/if-will-there-indigenous-languages-can-still-flourish</a><br>
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