Language keepers (fwd link)

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Language keepers

By Donna Laurent Caruso, Today correspondent
Story Published: Nov 15, 2010

“L8dwaw8gan wji Abaznodakaw8gan” (The Language of Basket Making) is a
newly available book (November 2010, Bowman Books, New York) by Jesse
Bruchac with Elie Joubert and Jeanne Brink that presents a unique way
to continue the revitalization of the Abenaki language.

Bruchac writes in the preface that this is “the first attempt at
creating a ‘how-to’ manual within the Abenaki language.” Western
Abenaki is translated into colloquial English in a series of steps
with clear black and white photographs showing the process – and thus
revealing the culture – of wood splint ash basket making in the
Wabanaki culture.

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