The process of saving or reviving a language is a lot of work. And the work is often tedious. Every so often I become aware of a video that is relevant to saving or re-creating Native languages, but few of them ever make it into my blog, they just don't have enough entertainment value.
However, we can thank Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee of the New York Times for making a remarkable 9 1/2-minute video about Marie Wilcox and her family.
Marie Wilcox is a Yokuts Tribe Native from central California.
Marie spoke the Wukchumni language as a child and decades later began writing Wukchumni words on whatever paper she could find. Later she collected the papers and entered them into a computer. She has worked hard enough to give her people a chance to keep Wukchumni alive.
The title of the video is Who Speaks Wukchumni?
Indian Country Today ran an article summarizing the video. Please don't use the article as an excuse not to watch the video.
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