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Re: World Lingos

From:SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...>
Date:Monday, August 28, 2000, 23:41
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> fieldwork on Menominee. So far, I think, they've made contact with perhaps > 6 or 7 speakers (most of them over 60, but one or two younger than that), > and there seem to be even more out there. Things have not progressed very > far yet with the fieldwork: the Menominee are--perhaps > understandably--extremely suspicious of white people showing interest in > their intellectual resources.
A friend of mine is a member of the Tewa tribe. He is interested in working on the language - documentation and preservation. Unfortunately, even though he is officially one of them, as soon as he mentions anything about linguistics, they give him the cold shoulder. Marcus