Medfield Library Presents Special Film Screening & Discussion of "We Still Live Here

Description courtesy of Medfield Library:

Medfield Library invites you to an exclusive screening and discussion of this award winning film about efforts to save the local endangered language and culture of the Wampanoag right here in Eastern Massachusetts.

We Still Live Here – As Nutayunean tells the amazing story of the return of the Wampanoag language, a Native American language silenced for more than a century. The Wampanoag Indians’ forebears ensured the survival of the first English settlers in New England — the Pilgrims,’ and lived to regret it. A century ago, after nearly 300 years of contact, their language virtually disappeared.

Now, spurred on by an indomitable Wampanoag woman, Jessie Little Doe Baird, recent winner of a MacArthur ‘genius’ award for her unprecedented linguistic work, the Wampanoag are bringing their language and their culture back to life.