Yuchi Revitalization

Caroline Aksich caroline.aksich at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 16 21:33:02 UTC 2008


Thanks Phil, this is great.

- Caroline

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:03 PM, phil cash cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu>wrote:

> Caroline,
>
> Greetings, I have two film clips of Mr. Grounds identified on my YouTube
> page.  He is giving testimony to the UN Peoples Forum II.  He does describe
> the current status of Yuchi but it has been awhile since I first viewed so
> you might want to check it out.  Hope this helps.
>
> Endangered Cultures, Endangered Languages
> http://www.youtube.com/user/weyiiletpu
>
> Phil Cash Cash
> UofA
>
>
> Quoting Caroline Aksich <caroline.aksich at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi, I am aware of an attempt to revitalize Yuchi run by Richard Grounds--
> > but I cannot find information of how successful these attempts have been.
> >
> > I am aware that there has been some frication in the community with
> regards
> > to the transcription systems Richard Grounds and Mary Linn, but other
> than
> > that I have little information related to how Yuchi is surviving in a
> modern
> > context.
> >
> > Does anyone know whether both systems are being used currently, or if one
> > has been decided on as official?
> >
> > Or does anyone have any information on other Yuchi revitalization
> efforts?
> >
> >
> > - Caroline Aksich, University of Toronto
>
>
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