Maidu Traditionalist and Language Instructor Farrell Cunningham Passes (fwd link)

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*Maidu Traditionalist and Language Instructor Farrell Cunningham Passes*
Jane Braxton Little<http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/advanced/search?fq[0]=ts_field_full_name%3AJane%20Braxton%20Little>
August 20, 2013



Farrell Cunningham, a Maidu Indian traditionalist who taught Maidu language
classes in several northern California communities, walked on August 11 at
his home in Susanville, California. He was 37. The cause of death is
pending.

A poet and painter who spoke seven languages, Farrell’s thirst for his
Native culture launched a life-long quest that began when he was 13. Too
young to drive a car, he telephoned the few remaining elders who could
speak Maidu to ask for words. “He would practice them all week long, then
call back and ask for more words,” Joyce Cunningham, his mother, said.
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