WEE Gather Together, November 22, 2012

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23. "Thank God for PBS" -- "The Pelican Brief"

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A wonderful group of Wampanoag descendants have spent many years, sweat and tears to revive the language that died out but was preserved by translating the Bible and other religious literature into that language using extant languages of the same lineage tree.

Noam Chomsky helped to see that they got a chance to work with academics, historians and libraries to do this huge important job. The purpose is to reclaim heritage and to move forward with the best of that world and this.

The Wampanoag knew that the Earth revolved around the sun and women were respected teachers and leaders in that culture which in MHO may be why that Thanksgiving happened at all and we aren't all in shanties eating rutabagas and pigeon stew in Europe today in our hand me down rags.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/11/we-still-live-here.html