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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode on with special guest jessie little doe baird, co-founder of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project which began in 1993/94. This is an intertribal effort between the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Assonet, Herring Pond, and Chappaquidick Wampanoag. The aim of the project is to reclaim Wôpanâak as a spoken language after there were no speakers of the language for six generations. little doe is a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Wampanoag Women's Medicine Society. She lives in Mashpee, MA. She also teaches Wôpanâak in Aquinnah and Mashpee. little doe received her Master of Science in Linguistics from MIT in 2000. She has completed a lay person's grammar of the language as well as a curriculum for teaching and is currently working toward the completion of a dictionary and expansion of the curriculum. Currently she is also rebuilding the Pequot language and teaching at Mashantucket, CT. Original air-date: 04-28-09.
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