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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 great-great-grandmother, Hinton may be one of the few first language Oneida speakers left in Wisconsin, but she is determined not to be the last.
Hinton recently put the finishing touches on an exhaustive recording of the Oneida dictionary. Taking five years of almost daily work, she recorded 12,000 audio files, including tens of thousands of Oneida words, and told stories she first heard in her mother tongue.
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 great-great-grandmother, Hinton may be one of the few first language Oneida speakers left in Wisconsin, but she is determined not to be the last.
Hinton recently put the finishing touches on an exhaustive recording of the Oneida dictionary. Taking five years of almost daily work, she recorded 12,000 audio files, including tens of thousands of Oneida words, and told stories she first heard in her mother tongue.
