Linguistics professor Robert Rankin worked to document, preserve Kaw language (fwd link)

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*Linguistics professor Robert Rankin worked to document, preserve Kaw
language*

By Beccy Tanner
The Wichita Eagle

Published Sunday, March 2, 2014, at 10:53 a.m.
Updated Sunday, March 2, 2014, at 11:05 a.m.


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When Robert Rankin, a linguistics professor from the University of Kansas
who spent much of his career researching and documenting the Kaw language,
died last week, his wife called the Kaw Nation in Oklahoma to tell them the
news.

She also offered to give the Kaw Nation his ashes, Kaw tribal leaders said.

“If it wasn’t for his work, we wouldn’t have our language,” said Jim Pepper
Henry, a Kaw tribal member who is now director and CEO of the Heard Museum
of Native Cultures and Art in Phoenix.

“He single-handed preserved our language. … You can’t put a price on
something like that.”

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