Last living speaker works to keep NorCal tribe's language alive

[Garry Forger]

As a child in the 1950s, Loretta Kelsey grew up hearing the sounds of 
Elem Pomo, an 8,000-year-old dialect spoken by early peoples of Northern 
California along the shores of Clear Lake in Lake County.

Since then, as an older generation passed away, the language they spoke 
went with them. According to scholars, 59-year-old Kelsey is the last 
fluent speaker of Elem Pomo alive today.

full story at http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7046816


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Garry

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Garry J. Forger, MLS, MWS
(Santa Cruz Watershed)
Development and Grants Management Officer
for Learning Technologies
http://ltc.arizona.edu
and
Technology Manager for the Center for Educational
Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
(CERCLL) http://cercll.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona
gforger at email.arizona.edu
520-626-3918
Fax 520-626-8220