A screening of the documentary We Still Live Here will be followed by a discussion with the Head of the Linguistics Department, Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik.
About the Film:
Like many Native American stories, this one begins with a vision. Years ago, Jessie began having recurring dreams about familiar-looking people from another time speaking in an incomprehensible language. These visions sent her on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in Wampanoag, lead her to a Masters in Linguistics at MIT, and result in an unprecedented feat of language reclamation by her people. Jessie's daughter Mae is the first Native speaker of Wampanoag in a century.
For more information, contact: Sarah Lindahl at sarah.lindahl@uconn.edu