The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in Connecticut is the site of the "Revitalizing Algonquian Languages" conference this week.

The three-day conference features more than two dozen presenters, a screening of a PBS documentary and an appearance by singer/activist Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose Cradleboard Teaching Project provides education materials about Native culture and history. Sainte-Marie is Cree, one of the many Algonquian languages.

New England tribes also speak Algonquian and several are trying to revitalize the language. The language is still spoken among Maine tribes.

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Mashantucket Pequots Plan Language Conference (The Hartford Courant 2/21)
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Relevant Links:
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center - http://www.pequotmuseum.org
Cradleboard Teaching Project - http://www.cradleboard.org