MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1961-05-03
Abstract:
Recording of the Lord's Prayer by Chief Wild Horse (Clinton Mye Haynes), identified by Day as the "last speaker of Wampanoag dialect, a medicine man of the Mashpee Division, Sagamore of the New England Federation of Indians, and a representative of the League of North American Indians." Recorded in New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 3, 1961. Wild Horse's identified status as "last speaker" may be reconsidered critically in relation to active revitalization of the dialect by Jessie Little Doe Baird and The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, begun in 1993, which is teaching children Wôpanâak as a first language.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.40
Extent:
1 tape(s)
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