#preserving language

A spark has been rekindled on the Omaha Indian reservation in northeast Nebraska, where members of the Ponca tribe are doing what they can to save their endangered language. With only a handful of fluent speakers still around, tribal elders say it falls on teaching the next generation to keep it alive. The effort is led by a woman who's 93, a tribal elder known as “Grandma Hawatay.” Read/Listen: http://bit.ly/2LZ1mv8