Linguist gives voice to ancestral Huron language (fwd link)

[Richard Zane Smith]

Thanks Phil
 for posting these articles on ILAT, on the revival of the Wendat(Huron)
language.
This has been an ongoing and HUGE project.
Our sister Wendat nation in Quebec has the enthusiasm from its youth
to revive language, just as they have revived ceremonies of our ancestors.
If ANY dormant language can be revived, the Wendat of Quebec will do it
and do it so well that its going to be another BIG success story for
linguists
all around the world to be encouraged by.

I only hope our Wyandot people in Oklahoma and Kansas and Michigan
will eventually understand its value. Assimilation unfortunately runs so
deep
it will require an awakening from a deep *assimimuted* state.
((*how do you like that word*?))

Today...It means educating our youth of what we had, and have lost.

Until people feel a craving for healthy food they'll simply eat junk food.
and our indigenous languages will only be a side salad.

ske:noh
Richard Zane Smith
Wyandotte, Oklahoma


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Linguist gives voice to ancestral Huron language
>
> BY MARK CARDWELL, SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
> MARCH 26, 2010
>
> WENDAKE – As a girl growing up in Norwalk, Conn., an hour’s drive
> north of New York City, Megan Lukaniec wasn’t all that interested in
> her aboriginal heritage or the postage stamp-size reserve near far-off
> Quebec City, where her father’s Huron-Wendat mother was from.
>
> But as the main linguist and chief trainer at the heart of the Yawenda
> Project, the 25-year-old is now literally giving voice to the rebirth
> of her ancestral language.
>
> “It’s a real honour for me to be involved like this – but it’s a lot
> of hard work, too,” Lukaniec said.
>
> Soon after coming here in 2006 to study the Wendat language on a
> one-year fellowship from Dartmouth University in New Hampshire – where
> she did an undergraduate degree in a Native American program that “got
> me interested in my roots” – Lukaniec met Linda Sioui and other
> residents in Wendake who were busily planning the Yawenda
> language-revitalization project.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Linguist+gives+voice+ancestral+Huron+language/2731530/story.html
>
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