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  • Scholar sole speaker of Huron language[Canada]

    12/25/2007 10:24:50 AM PST · by BGHater · 32 replies · 122+ views
    The Star ^ | 24 Dec 2007 | John Goddard
    Teacher has published dictionary for once thriving Ontario tribe whose `Huron Carol' is Yule tradition The world's last Huron-language speaker is a white man teaching at Humber College. Anthropologist John Steckley has made the Huron tongue and Huron history his focus for more than 30 years, "and every year I think of how little I knew the year before," he says. Sometimes he feels alone in his interests, he says. At other times, he feels in demand – especially around Christmas and particularly this one. Earlier this month Steckley published an authoritative Huron-English dictionary, the first such volume in more...