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Jessie Little Doe Baird (also Jessie Little Doe Fermino, [1] [2] born 18 November 1963) [3] is a linguist known for her efforts to revive the Wampanoag (Wôpanâak) language. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.
Jessie Little Doe Baird, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, founded the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project in 1993. [26] They have taught some children, who have become the first speakers of Wôpanâak in more than a century. [12]
The phonology of the Massachusett language was re-introduced to the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Herring Pond and Assonet tribes that participate in the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, co-founded by Jessie Little Doe Baird in 1993.
Due to the heavy scholarly, cultural and media attention surrounding the revival of the language under the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project of Jessie Little Doe Baird, and also because the Wampanoag far outnumber Massachusett people, the use of 'Wampanoag' or its revived form 'Wôpanâak' to refer to the entire language is increasing. [2 ...
Jessie Little Doe Baird has raised her daughter, Mae Alice Baird, speaking Wampanoag, a language that had been extinct for 150 years. I think Mae Alice was born in 2004. There is a wealth of written documents in the Wampanoag language, including two Bibles, but of course no voice recordings.
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