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Flying Bird's Diaries And Papers Come Home To The Mohegan Tribe


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The last fluent speaker of the Mohegan language, "Flying Bird" Fidelia Fielding, preserved her linguistic heritage in her extensive writings.

But Flying Bird’s writings have been separated from the tribe for years, in the possession of outside scholars, and even at one point nearly all lost in a fire.

Now, Flying Bird’s diaries and papers have finally come home.

This hour, we talk with Mohegan tribal Chief Lynn Malerba and Medicine Woman Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, about the significance of these documents finally returning to the Mohegan nation. The tribe had asked Cornell University to return the documents, and they were finally transferred to the tribe earlier this month.

And we learn about the tribe’s extensive efforts to resurrect the Mohegan language, which hasn’t had a fluent speaker for more than 100 years. How will Flying Bird’s writings help this process of language restoration?

GUESTS:

  • Chief Mutáwi Mutáhash Dr. Lynn Malerba - Chief of Mohegan Tribe in Uncasville, Connecticut
  • Medicine Woman Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel- Medicine Woman for the Mohegan Tribe; she’s the author of an award-winning screenplay and play about "Flying Bird" Fidelia Fielding
  • Autumn Cholewa - Mohegan Language Apprentice

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