[Peace] 11/8 6pm CPL: film "We Still Live Here", on the revitalization of the Wampanoag language

[Stuart Levy]

This film, Tuesday 11/8 at 6pm in Champaign Public Library,
sounds really interesting -- "... The first time a language
with no native speakers has been revived in this country...
The Wampanoag's ancestors ensured the survival of the pilgrims
in New England and lived to regret it.  Nevertheless, through
resilience and courage they kept their identity alive and
remained on their ancestral lands.  Now a cultural revival
is taking place."


Also don't miss Luisa Dantas' film *tonight*, Monday 11/7, 7pm,
UofI Education building, room 2: "Land of Opportunity", which Brian D.
just posted about.  She gave a good Focus interview on WILL-AM just now;
recording should be up soon at:
    http://will.illinois.edu/focus/weekly/P4/



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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 02:34:16 +0000
From: "Radcliffe, Henry Michael III" <henryr at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: Community Cinema: The New Season Continues Tuesday, November 8th, with We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân
To: "Radcliffe, Henry Michael III" <henryr at illinois.edu>

Hello,
The new season of our Community Cinema Series continues Tuesday, November 8, at 6pm, with We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân.
The Community Cinema Series is a partnership between Illinois Public Media, Independent Lens, a program of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the Champaign Public Library. Community Cinema is an event that provides monthly community screenings and discussions of documentaries prior to their broadcast on WILL-TV. Our goals with this series are to connect our audiences with documentaries and to open dialogue about issues raised in the documentaries.

The film for our next screening, We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân
   http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/we-still-live-here/
 is the story of the revitalization of the Wampanoag language, the first time a
language with no native speakers has been revived in this country. The
Wampanoag's ancestors ensured the survival of the pilgrims in New England, and
lived to regret it. Nevertheless, through resilience and courage they kept
their identity alive and remained on their ancestral lands. Now a cultural
revival is taking place.

The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little Doe, an intrepid, 30-something
Wampanoag social worker, began having recurring dreams: familiar-looking people
from another time addressing her in an incomprehensible language. Jessie was
perplexed and a little annoyed - why couldn't they speak English? Later, she
realized they were speaking Wampanoag, a language no one had used for more than
a century.

These events sent her and members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag
communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in
their ancestral language, lead Jessie to a earn herself a masters degree in
linguistics at MIT, and result in something that had never been done before -
bringing a language alive again in an American Indian community after many
generations with no native speakers. With commitment, study groups, classes,
and communitywide effort, many are approaching fluency. Jessie's young daughter
Mae is the first native speaker in more than a hundred years.

The screening and post screening discussion will be held at the Champaign
Public Library, 200 W Green St. Champaign, in the Robeson Rooms A & B on
Tuesday November 8, 2011 starting at 6pm. The film will air on WILL-TV Friday,
November 18th at 9:30pm.

For more information visit our website at;
    http://willconnect.org/projects/cinema/



   Henry M. Radcliffe III
Community Engagement
            Producer
   Illinois Public Media
   300 N. Goodwin Ave.
     Urbana, IL 61801

     217 244-6246 wk

   henryr at illinois.edu<mailto:henryr at uiuc.edu>

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