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Almost 20 children from Wampanoag households are being...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN\u003cbr/\u003e              The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language.\u003cbr/\u003e              Almost 20 children from Wampanoag households are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE\u003cbr/\u003e              Sitting in a circle these toddlers sing nursery rhymes which sound familiar - although the language probably doesn't.\u003cbr/\u003e              They're all students at The Mukayuhsak Weekuw, or \"Children's House\", an immersion school launched by the Cape Cod-based Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, whose ancestors hosted a harvest celebration with the Pilgrims in 1621 which helped form the basis for the country's Thanksgiving tradition. \u003cbr/\u003e              The 19 children here are all from Wampanoag households and are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century until the tribe started an effort to reclaim it more than two decades ago. The immersion school is now in its second year.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I do see progress. We have some children that are pre-verbal here and for their first words to actually be Wampanoag words is amazing,\" says Wampanoag Language Preschool teacher, Tia Pocknett.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Even though, like, you know, we have a classroom of 19 children, even though that's 19 it's gonna trickle because those children have family members and they're gonna start using that and as we keep going with process of the school and working with younger and younger kids, the more language is gonna come back to our communities.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              At the public high school, seven students are enrolled in the district's first Wampanoag language class, which is funded and staffed by the tribe. \u003cbr/\u003e              Further up the road, volunteers host free language learning sessions for families each Friday at the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum. \u003cbr/\u003e              And within the tribe's government building, one floor up from the immersion school, tribal elders gather twice a week for an hourlong lesson before lunch. \u003cbr/\u003e              Last week the Massachusetts Statehouse hosted a ceremony to mark the first Thanksgiving with Pilgrims. The event began with a traditional song and prayer.\u003cbr/\u003e              The movement to revitalise native American languages started gaining traction in the 1990s and today, most of country's 550 plus tribes are engaged in some form of language preservation work.\u003cbr/\u003e              But the Mashpee Wampanoag stand out because they're one of the few tribes to have brought back their language despite not having any surviving adult speakers. \u003cbr/\u003e              Jessie Baird (or \"Little Doe\" as she's known) was in her 20s, had no college degree and zero training in linguistics when a dream inspired her to start learning Wampanoag in the early 1990s.\u003cbr/\u003e              Working with linguistic experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other tribal members, Baird developed a dictionary of Wampanoag and a grammar guide.\u003cbr/\u003e              She and others drew on historical documents written in Wampanoag, including personal diaries of tribal members, Colonial-era land claims and a version of the King James Bible printed in 1663 that is considered one of the oldest ever printed in the Western hemisphere.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Wampanoag was the first language … first American-Indian language to use an alphabet to write in the language. And the first King James version of the Bible was printed in Wampanoag in 1663 on a printing press in Cambridge at what is now Harvard University,\" she explains.\u003cbr/\u003e              To fill in the gaps, they turned to words, pronunciations and other auditory cues from related Algonquian languages still spoken today.\u003cbr/\u003e              On the importance of reclaiming the ancient Wampanoag language Baird says:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's just too much of a list to explain what it's brought home to us. It's a lot.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Nearly three decades on, the tribe is still in need of more adults fluent in the language to continue expanding its immersion school and other youth-focused language efforts - the keys to ensuring the language's survival. \u003cbr/\u003e              The school currently enrolls pre-K and kindergarten-age children but hopes to ramp up to middle school within five years.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Mashpee, Massachusetts, U.S. - 12 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various children singing in the Wampanoag language at the Mukayuhsak Weekuw, or \"Children's House\", an immersion school launched by the Cape Cod-based Mashpee Wampanoag tribe\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Meeqanees Thomas, Learning Wampanoag Language:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Uhm, I teach my mom, my dad, my grandma, my other grandma, my papa, my … my sister.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various children saying a prayer before eating lunch\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tia Pocknett, Wampanoag Language Preschool teacher:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I do see progress. We have some children that are pre-verbal here and for their first words to actually be Wampanoag words is amazing. To watch children initiate prayer on their own in their own language is amazing. Even though, like, you know, we have a classroom of 19 children, even though that's 19 it's gonna trickle because those children have family members and they're gonna start using that and as we keep going with process of the school and working with younger and younger kids, the more language is gonna come back to our communities.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Girls playing game\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tia Pocknett, Wampanoag Language Preschool teacher:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's funny when… when we think of, you know, age, like elders trying to, you know, be there and, like speak the language and it is the youth that are actually teaching them. So that's impactful within itself.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. – 13 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Various of Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council Chairman Cedric Cromwell singing an honour song during a ceremony at the Massachusetts Statehouse in honour of first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Suzanne Bump, Massachusetts State Auditor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"In the autumn of 1621, in a small colony in the midst of the Wampanoag homeland, more than 90 Wampanoag men shared food with 52 English settlers in what would later be called the first Thanksgiving.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Mashpee, Massachusetts, U.S. – 17 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Traditional Mashpee Wampanoag domed hut at the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Replica of a dug out canoe that was used by Mashpee Wampanoag fishermen\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various open flame used for cooking and heating, burns at the centre of the traditional hut\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Mashpee, Massachusetts, U.S. – 12 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessie \"Little Doe\" Baird, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Vice Chairwoman:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The language was probably unspoken for roughly 170 years or so – 170 to 180 years no speakers – which translates to six generations of Wampanoag people not speakers of the language.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Dartmouth, New Hampshire, U.S. – 13 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Various first edition of the first Bible published in America, a rare book that was printed in the Wampanoag language in 1663 and which was used in conjunction with other historic legal documents written in the American-Indian language to help in efforts to reclaim the lost language \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Mashpee, Massachusetts, U.S. – 12 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessie \"Little Doe\" Baird, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Vice Chairwoman:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"And so, Wampanoag was the first language … first American-Indian language to use an alphabet to write in the language. And the first King James version of the Bible was printed in Wampanoag in 1663 on a printing press in Cambridge at what is now Harvard University.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Baird with kids in classroom UPSOUND (Wampanoag) \"She is called Eliana. Eliana is our friend.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Various close of children's feet wearing moccasins\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Baird watches a young girl dance and teaches her how to say \"I'm dancing\" in Wampanoag UPSOUND student (English): \"And this is dancing.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              Jessie \"Little Doe\" Baird (Wampanoag): \"Nupumuhkôm.\" (English translation: \"I'm dancing.\")\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Mid of wild turkey feathers, student picking them up\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessie \"Little Doe\" Baird, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Vice Chairwoman:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I didn't now that no language had been reclaimed with no speakers before. I didn't know it was unusual at all. I know now, but I didn't know in the first place, or I might have told my ancestors to go kick rocks. I don't know! (laughter).\"\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe boundary sign\u003cbr/\u003e              21. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessie \"Little Doe\" Baird, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Vice Chairwoman:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Just language brings… it's just too much of a list to explain what it's brought home to us. It's a lot.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              22. 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