Saturday Memorial: Carolyn Quintero

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Saturday Memorial
Justin McBride Family, Linda Chamberlin (Kaw Nation Language Program) along 
with myself and my grandchildren attended Carolyn's Memorial at the Hominy, 
OK cemetery on Saturday, June 14th, at  11am.  Under bright sun, and a cool 
70s degree, a group of about 25 persons gathered.  A minister spoke a 
typical service, then Gordon Leamon, her fiancé spoke.  It was a clarifying 
moment for me as I did not know she had a fiancé for ten years, and again, 
in respect to the recent duplicate messages from "Gordon", which I could not 
comprehend thinking only of the Gordon from the Siouan group list, and the 
unlikelihood he spawned the repetitions.

John Red Eagle spoke of her contributions to the Osage Nation Language 
Program, followed by his brother who offered a prayer in the Wazhazhi 
Language.  There were several other Osage present.  I anticipate that there 
will be a forthcoming news article from the Osage, perhaps in their tribal 
newspaper.  I later meet one of the Osage Language Program representatives 
who will attend the Joplin, MO Siouan Language Conference at MSSU next 
weekend.  She mentioned to me that they "would come to listen, and observe, 
rather than speak or provide a particular contribution".  It seems that the 
majority of Osage are not aware of the pending Osage Dictionary by Oklahoma 
University Press, where I am told, it waits to be printed, having completed 
all reviews and editing.

A reception luncheon and photo slide show was held at the Quaker Friends 
Church in Hominy after the Memorial service.  As the time began to overlap 
into the traditional Osage Iroshka activities, I and the several Osage chose 
to forego the luncheon and photo presentation to return to Hominy Camp. 
However,  I was able to speak with her daughter from San Rafael, CA and her 
son Markos of Tulsa who will continue the family business Inter Lingua to 
share my personal thoughts and experiences.

For whoever may wish to share personal expressions and thoughts, I include 
the children's address and  Emails below.
Anna_Murdick at yahoo.com
Anna Quintero Murdick
28 Main Dr.
San Rafael, CA   94901
language at interlinguainc.com
Markos Quintero
1711 East 15th St.
Tulsa, OK  74104-4608

Until someone who is thoroughly acquainted with Carolyn's accomplishments is 
able to write her a tribute for SSILA and other appropriate media, the Tulsa 
article will stand her well.  She was a language activist, meaning she 
advocated speaking and using language, in lieu, of simply talking about 
speaking and using language.  And thus, she did.
jgt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Alfred W. Tüting"" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de>
To: <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: Carolyn Quintero from the Tulsa paper.


You can find this article (with photograph) here:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080615_58_A21_hOURLI772479

Alfred

Am 15.06.2008 um 21:07 schrieb Rankin, Robert L:

>
> The Tulsa World version apparently has a photograph also.   Bob
>
> ____________________________________
>
> Business owner loved mastering languages
>
> by: JENNIE LLOYD
>
> Tulsa World
> 6/15/2008
>
> LINGUIST
> Carolyn Quintero: She wrote a dissertation for her doctorate in 
> linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst about 
> preserving the dying Osage language.(...)

_______________

Alfred W. Tüting
ti at fa-kuan.muc.de