For nearly 200 years very few people, if any, have listened to or spoken the tongues native to the Unkechaug and Shinnecock Long Island Indian Nations. Now the two Indian nations and Stony Brook University have initiated a joint project to revive these forgotten tongues. Chief Harry Wallace of the Unkechaug Nation emphasizes the integral [...]
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