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Re: a crying-out for resources

From:B Elliott Walker <umwalk05@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 1999, 20:45
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.
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i just found a reference for Kickapoo: Voorhis, Paul H.: Introduction to the Kickapoo Language. Language Science Monographs 13. Bloomington: Indiana University Publications 1974.