Tribe receives language revitalization grant (fwd link)

[phil cash cash]

Tribe receives language revitalization grant

By Jessica Bloch
BDN Staff
USA

ORONO, Maine — Travel to an Indian community north of Florida and you probably
won’t hear the tribal language being spoken.

That’s not the case, however, in the communities of Pleasant Point and Indian
Township in Washington County, and it’s something of which residents are proud.

But there’s also a concern the continuation of the spoken language won’t last.
In the past year alone 14 fluent speakers of the Passamaquoddy language died,
one local leader said recently.

The concern is so grave that several members of the community intend to use a
grant from the Administration for Native Americans, or ANA, to support a
language revitalization program.

Donald Soctomah, the director of the Historic Preservation Office for the
Passamaquoddy Tribe, recently received notice of the 12-month, $73,329 grant,
the application for that he helped prepare.

Access full article below:
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/131671.html