Keeping a native language alive
When Jessie Little Doe Baird was growing up on Cape Cod in the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she didn’t have a relationship with her native language. Now, she reteaches her language to her community and family through the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, which she co-founded.
The Common · WBUR
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Show Notes
When Jessie Little Doe Baird was growing up on Cape Cod in the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she didn’t have a relationship with her native language.
Now, she reteaches her language to her community and family through the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, which she co-founded.
Today on The Common, we hear Darryl C. Murphy's conversation with Baird on Radio Boston from earlier this fall.
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