
MacArthur Fellows Program
Jessie Little Doe Baird
Indigenous Language Preservationist | Class of 2010
Reviving a long-silent language and restoring to her Native American community a vital sense of its cultural heritage and to the nation a link to our complex past.
Select News Coverage of Jessie Little Doe Baird
August 24, 2020
"The Language Had Gone Quiet. Remarkably, She Brought It Back, Saving Far More Than Just Words"
March 26, 2017
"How to Revive Massachusetts’ First Language"
April 9, 2015
"Wampanoag Language Historian Honored By Celtics"
August 25, 2014
"Tribal Language Charter School Inches Forward"
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