A vanished language returns

Baird, the 46-year old director of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, won a so-called “genius’’ grant this week for her initiative to revive the language of her Wampanoag ancestors. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by William Hardy - Sep 30, 2010 - 4:47 AM PDT
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Edited by: William Hardy - Sep 30, 2010 - 8:07 AM PDT

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William Hardy
3.4
by William Hardy - Sep. 30, 2010

Gives some background about the Wampanoag tribe and the language revival project. They could have gotten tribe members' and linguists' opinions about the project, but still a pretty good article.

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Amanda Peterson
3.1
by Amanda Peterson - Oct. 3, 2010

article was lacking facts, and uninteresting.

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