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TitleTreasured Teacher Embodies 100 Reasons To Learn Oneida
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From http://www.americanindiannews.org/2010/04/treasured-teacher-embodies-100-reasons-to-learn-oneida

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 a few fluent 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.

Read the full article at http://www.americanindiannews.org/2010/04/treasured-teacher-embodies-100-reasons-to-learn-oneida
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