[Magdalen] Grammar Nightmare.

[Eleanor Braun]

I was just over at the Wampanoag museum in Mashpee on Wednesday; having
visited the Pilgrim monument in Provincetown on Tuesday, my visiting friend
and I wanted to get the other point of view.  I picked up a copy of the CD
 "We Still Live Here," which I hope to view this weekend.  The docent at
the museum said that the word "chipmunk" came from Wampanoag, although
Wikipedia attributes  it to Odawa (Ottawa) language.

Eleanor

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> True, the language (Wampanoag) died out, but it has been revived:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Little_Doe_Baird and
> http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/we-still-live-here/
>
> Up here in Vermont, there are (unlike Massachusetts) few Indian place
> names. The only one which comes to mind is the Winooski ("Onion" in
> Abenaki) River.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>