Independent Lens

S13E05 We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean

  • Sezonul 13, episodul 5
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  • Difuzat joi, 17 noiembrie 2011
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  • 60 min

Anne Makepeace's "We Still Live Here—As Nutayunean" tells the story of linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird's work to resurrect the long-forgotten language of the Wampanoag (the Native Americans who saved the Pilgrims from starvation). The documentary details what led Baird, in 1994, to begin the effort to return the dormant language to the living; and also explains the factors that led to the language's extinction a century ago.