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    Anadarko woman last fluent speaker of the Wichita language
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    By S.E. Ruckman
    Anadarko, Oklahoma (AP)

    Oklahoma had been a state for only two decades when Doris Jean Lamar was born in 1927. Her first spoken words were not English, but an American Indian language taught to her by grandparents.

    Today, Lamar is the last fluent...
    12-07-2007, 07:44 PM
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    Shoshone woman devotes her life to preserving native language
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    By Chris Merrill
    Fort Washakie, Wyoming (AP)

    Although she spoke Shoshone until the age of 6, it has taken years for Reba Teran, now 50, to feel fluent again.

    Now that she does, she will teach an introductory Eastern Shoshone language course at the University of Wyoming...
    04-18-2008, 12:40 PM
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    CU researchers help native speakers save history
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    By Brittany Anas
    Boulder, Colorado (AP)

    The Wichita language, once spoken by thousands, has one remaining voice.

    Doris Jean Lamar McLemore, 80, considers it a happenstance that she – the daughter of an Indian mother and white father – has become the guardian...
    06-07-2008, 01:59 PM
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    Treasured teacher embodies 100 reasons to learn Oneida
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    By Kara Briggs
    American Indian News Service

    Hinton, who turns 100 in June, has just put the finishing touches on a spoken dictionary of her language

    When Maria Hinton was born nearly 100 years ago, every Oneida family spoke the language of their ancestors. Now a...
    05-17-2010, 03:33 PM
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    American Indian Center of Indiana: “Been down the same road”
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    By Kerry Davis
    Indianapolis, Indiana - (NFIC)

    What better person to have as a case manager than someone who has been down the same road as the people she serves. Such is the case for Regina Condon (Navajo/Sioux), a case manager at the American Indian Center of Indiana, Inc., (AICI)....
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