<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="4"><b>Linguistics professor Robert Rankin worked to document, preserve Kaw language</b></font><br><br>By Beccy Tanner<br>The Wichita Eagle<br>
<br>Published Sunday, March 2, 2014, at 10:53 a.m.<br>Updated Sunday, March 2, 2014, at 11:05 a.m.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br><ul id="story_datetime" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(153,153,153);float:right">
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When Robert Rankin, a linguistics professor from the University of Kansas who spent much of his career researching and documenting the Kaw language, died last week, his wife called the Kaw Nation in Oklahoma to tell them the news.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">She also offered to give the Kaw Nation his ashes, Kaw tribal leaders said.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
“If it wasn’t for his work, we wouldn’t have our language,” said Jim Pepper Henry, a Kaw tribal member who is now director and CEO of the Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art in Phoenix.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
“He single-handed preserved our language. … You can’t put a price on something like that.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Access full article below: </p>
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