Re: a crying-out for resources

Either things have changed, or I got the wrong lang. I think the latter is more
likely, now that I think about it...but there IS a lang that feels this way, one of
our grad students was, for a short time, trying to do a work on it and kept having
trouble for the reason given. Learned about it in a class on endangered langs.

    Clint

Matt Pearson wrote:

> Clinton wrote:
>
> >You WON'T find anything on Kickapoo. That tribe belives that their language
> >was created for them (a conlang!!) specifically by the creator, so they don't
> >want anyone to know it but those in the tribe. the result of course being that
> >it is moribund...which is also okay with the Kickapoo, because that must be
> >the creator's will.
>
> This must not have always been the case.  I remember reading an article
> on Kickapoo narrative structure in a Structure of Algonquian class I took
> about 10 years ago.  The article included extensive textual examples.
>
> Matt.