Fluent Arikara speaker dies (fwd link)

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Fluent Arikara speaker dies

Associated Press - January 28, 2010 9:15 AM ET
USA

WHITE SHIELD, N.D. (AP) - The Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota
says 1 of the remaining few elders who could teach the Arikara
language has died.

Maude Starr, whose American Indian name meant Yellow Calf Woman, died
Jan. 20 at the age of 71. Her funeral was held Wednesday in the Fort
Berthold Reservation community of White Shield.

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