On Point | Podcast

First Person: Keeping The Wampanoag Language Alive

03.23.2021 - By WBURPlay

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In Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the language of the Mashpee Wampanoag was wiped out more than a century ago. But in the mid-1990s, an effort began to revive and reinvigorate the language: the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.

Melanie Roderick is a teacher with the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. In this radio diary, she walks us through the history of the Wampanoag language.

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