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| Title | Article: Tall Pine Driven to Preserve the Nipmuc Language |
| Body | From http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-23/125610943490920.xml&coll=1 Tall Pine driven to preserve the Nipmuc language By BOB DATZ October 21, 2009 Growing up in Sturbridge, the language was around David White at tribal ceremonies in which is father and uncle were particularly active. But girls and buddies were his major interests, even though he was taking language classes and spoke a little starting at age 11. "I didn't really get serious about it until I was a young adult," White said. Then, before he died five years ago, George (Little Turtle) Munyan, who served as language teacher and a spiritual leader for the tribe, asked White to consider carrying on his teaching. "So it wasn't really a choice." Read the full article at http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-23/125610943490920.xml&coll=1 |
| Source | The Republican, Springfield, MA |
| Inputdate | 2009-11-07 10:19:40 |
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