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L.A. Times profiles the Pamunkey Tribe
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Los Angeles Times
Treuer in the LA Times
From the LA Times:
Native American languages are dying out with the elders.
By David Treuer, Special to the Los Angeles Times
February 3, 2008
Only three Native American languages now spoken in the United States and Canada are expected to survive into the middle of this century. Mine, Ojibwe, is one of them. Many languages have just a few speakers left — two or three — while some have a fluent population in the hundreds. Recently, Marie Smith Jones, the last remaining speaker of the Alaskan Eyak language, died at age 89. The Ojibwe tribe has about 10,000 speakers distributed around the Great Lakes and up into northwestern Ontario and eastern Manitoba. Compared with many, we have it pretty good.
More “Nimrod Nation” — LA Times
From the L.A. Times:
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“Nimrod Nation,” which airs Nov. 26, tracks a season in the life of the Watersmeet Nimrods, a small-town basketball team in far-northern Michigan
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The Nimrod Chronicles
“Nimrod Nation,” which airs Nov. 26, tracks a season in the life of the Watersmeet Nimrods, a small-town basketball team in far-northern Michigan
Community — and small-town basketball — are the focus of a new reality series on the Sundance Channel.
Since the current writers strike was first bruited, the prospect of more reality TV has been held out to the public like a threat — coal in the stocking at Christmas, the boogeyman waiting in the closet. People watch a lot of reality TV as it is, but I suspect that even among its most ardent fans there are many who sense there is something not quite right about it, something not . . . real. It’s good for sensation and sentiment but not for anything resembling the dispassionately considered truth. Continue reading
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