Jessie Little Doe Baird

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Jessie Little Doe Baird is a Wampanoag linguist and language activist known for leading the revival of the Wôpanâak language and efforts to restore it as a living, spoken language in her community.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language activist
linguist
person
advocatesFor cultural preservation through language
indigenous language rights
alternateName Jessie Baird
Little Doe Baird
associatedWith Mashpee Wampanoag community
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
awardReceived MacArthur Fellowship
MacArthur “Genius Grant”
citizenship United States
coFounded Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
degree Master’s degree in linguistics
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ethnicity Wampanoag
fieldOfWork Algonquian languages
indigenous languages of North America
language revitalization
linguistics
focusesOn community-based language education
intergenerational language transmission
restoring Wôpanâak as a spoken language
founded Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
gender female
hasRole community leader
curriculum developer
language teacher
researcher
influenced contemporary Wampanoag language education
indigenous language revitalization practices in North America
knownFor Wampanoag language revitalization
indigenous language activism
revival of the Wôpanâak language
languageRevived Wampanoag language
Wôpanâak
movement indigenous language revitalization movement
nativeLanguageCommunity Wampanoag people
notableFor helping produce the first new native speakers of Wôpanâak in over a century
notableProject creation of Wôpanâak immersion education programs
development of Wôpanâak language curriculum
reconstruction of Wôpanâak from historical documents
occupation language revitalization advocate
linguist
residence Massachusetts
studies colonial-era Wampanoag language documents
historical Wampanoag texts


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