Lorretta Webster, fluent in Oneida, dies at 100 (fwd link)

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Lorretta Webster, fluent in Oneida, dies at 100

She was part of tribe's language revitalization project

BY SCOTT WILLIAMS • SWILLIAMS at GREENBAYPRESSGAZETTE.COM • SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
USA

HOBART — Lorretta Webster, one of the last people to learn Oneida as a first
language, died Monday. She was 100.

The Hobart native worked with the Oneida Language Revitalization Program,
started in 1996 after a survey found only 25 to 30 tribal elders were fluent
in Oneida.

"She never stopped using her language," said Inez Thomas, a coordinator at
the Oneida Cultural Heritage Center. "She never quit."

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