Native languages live on in place names-see yesterday's article Brazil

[Sandra Gaskell]

  if the pictures don't come through here is a link---aerial photos of a village 
  no contact with outside world and an article regarding the disposition of the health of this village if outside diseases were to be introduced....
   
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7426869.stm
  the p-roblem is that logging will bring diseases to the remote people
  very interesting-Sandy
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
  These images are all from a later pass by the plane. The men, painted red, brandished weapons and fired off some arrows at the aircraft. The person in black may be a woman.
   
  the link has more pix

phil cash cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU> wrote:
  Published - Sunday, June 01, 2008

Native languages live on in place names
By Lee Newspapers

If you want to see how the state’s native languages are part of its heritage,
look at a map.

A Wisconsin atlas is full of place names such as Wausau and Portage derived from
those languages. Hundreds more native place names still exist but have fallen
out of common use.

Many native place names also have value to scientists and conservationists who
want to document or restore lost habitats, said Jim St. Arnold, a specialist in
Ojibwe language names.

Access full article below:
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/06/01/news/07places01.txt



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