24.719, Media: LA Times Article on Yurok Revitalization

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Subject: 24.719, Media: LA Times Article on Yurok Revitalization

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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:02:21
From: Anna Belew [anna at linguistlist.org]
Subject: LA Times Article on Yurok Revitalization

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"Carole Lewis throws herself into her work as if something big is at stake.

'Pa'-ah,' she tells her Eureka High School class, gesturing at a bottle of
water. She whips around and doodles a crooked little fish on the blackboard,
hinting at the dip she's prepared with 'ney-puy' — salmon, key to the diet of
California's largest Native American tribe.

For thousands of years before Western settlers arrived, the Yurok thrived in
dozens of villages along the Klamath River. By the 1990s, however, academics
had predicted their language soon would be extinct. As elders passed away, the
number of native speakers dropped to six.

But tribal leaders would not let the language die."

Full story here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yurok-language-20130207,0,776112.story
 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Yurok (yur)






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