mathias | September 20, 2011

After seeing a video on Jessie Little Doe Baird, Nitana Hicks (Mashpee Wampanoag) became motivated to help her tribe’s language: Wopanaak. Like Little Doe, Nitana Hicks is on route to receive an advanced degree in Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by 2014. Currently 250 families are taking Wopanaak language classes and one seven-year-old [...]

Category: Wopanaak | 2 Comments »
Tags: Jessie Little Doe Baird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nitana Hicks, Wampanoag, WLRP, Wopanaak, Wopanaak Language Reclamation Project

mathias | February 17, 2011

Meet, Native language linguistics legend and Jessie “Little Doe” Baird, if you haven’t heard of her already. She wrote grammar on Wampanoag (a centuries extinct dialect of the Algonquian, Massachusett-Wampanoag language) from a translation of the Bible and some other early missionary works – Jessie Little Doe Fermino. 2000. “An Introduction to Wampanoag Grammar,” Massachusetts [...]

Category: Native Language Events, Native Languages, Wampanoag, Wopanaak | 2 Comments »
Tags: Indigenous Languages Initiative, Jessie Little Doe Baird, Jessie Little Doe Fermino, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, Ken Hale, Lexington Community Education, MacArthur Foundation, Massachusett-Wampanoag, MIT, Noam Chomsky, revitalization, Wampanoag, Wopanaak