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Re: a crying-out for resources

From:Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 1999, 16:19
Clinton wrote:

>You WON'T find anything on Kickapoo. That tribe belives that their language >was created for them (a conlang!!) specifically by the creator, so they don't >want anyone to know it but those in the tribe. the result of course being that >it is moribund...which is also okay with the Kickapoo, because that must be >the creator's will.
This must not have always been the case. I remember reading an article on Kickapoo narrative structure in a Structure of Algonquian class I took about 10 years ago. The article included extensive textual examples. Matt.