Lecture by Jessie Little Doe Baird, February 13, 2008

The Language of the Land:
From Assimilation to Reclamation

Jesse Little Doe Baird

(Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Wampanoag Women’s Medicine Society)

Speaks at the Haffenreffer

Wednesday, February 13, 2008; 5:30 p.m.

Manning Hall, Main Green, on the Brown University Campus

 

The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology invites friends and community members to join a conversation with Jessie Little Doe Baird (Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Wampanoag Women’s Medicine Society). Ms. Baird co-founded the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project in 1993 and received her Master of Science degree in Linguistics from MIT in 2000.  In this talk, Ms. Baird will discuss the introduction of Native writing to the Wampanoag Nation and examine ways in which the Wampanoag language was used as a tool for assimilation by the colonists, and the social implications for the Wampanoag. She will also explore ways in which written codification of the language helped the Wampanoag to retain their lands and how the Nation is using those written documents, today, to reclaim their language of heritage.

 

This lecture is Co-sponsored by CSREA/American Indian Studies, the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, and the John Nicholas Brown Center. The lecture takes place in Manning Hall Gallery with a reception immediately following.

Please forward this email and attached flyer to friends and colleagues who would be interested.

We look forward to seeing you at this important event.