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Loading... Last Known Speakers of a Language: Ishi, Turkey Tayac, Juana Maria, Trugernanner, Shanawdithit, John Davey, Dolly Pentreath, Big Bill Neidjieby Books LLC
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 125. Not illustrated. Chapters: Ishi, Turkey Tayac, Juana Maria, Trugernanner, Shanawdithit, John Davey, Dolly Pentreath, Big Bill Neidjie, Truman Washington Dailey, Ned Maddrell, Marie Smith Jones, Carmel Charles, Doris Mclemore, Nonosbawsut, John Steckley, Last Speaker of Language, Tevfik Esenc, Armand Lunel, Margaret Mcmurray, Tuone Udaina, Fanny Cochrane Smith, Viktor Berthold, Jack Butler, Klavdiya Plotnikova, Algy Paterson, Chesten Marchant, Red Thunder Cloud, Alf Palmer, Cristina Calderon, Roscinda Nolasquez, Pan Jin-Yu, Edwin Benson, Fidelia Fielding, Morndi Munro, Sesostrie Youchigant, Charlie Mungulda, Walter Sutherland, Sally Noble, Rememberer, Vyie. Excerpt: Turkey Tayac, legally Philip Sheridan Proctor (18951978), self-identified as a Piscataway Indian leader and herbal doctor; he was notable in Indigenous peoples of the AmericasNative American activism for tribal and cultural revival in the twentieth century. He had some knowledge of the Piscataway language and was consulted by the Algonquian linguist, Ives Goddard, as well as Julian Granberry. He was born Philip Sheridan Proctor in 1895 in Charles County, Maryland to Louis Proctor and Jennie (Virginia) Ann Collins. According to the racial conventions of the time, his parents, his siblings and he were classified on census records as "free people of color," "mulatto," or black, but he said they were of Native American and European ancestry. His family nicknamed him "Turkey" for his early outspoken character. By the time Proctor was born, only a few Piscataway families identified sufficiently as Indian to transmit knowledge of their Native American heritage. As an adult, Proctor started using the surname "Tayac," both as a title for his leadership, and because he said the name was part of his family's oral history. Proctor claimed to have descended from Piscataway pa... No library descriptions found. |
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