Re: World Lingos

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