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Doris Jean Lamar, 82, is the last living person who can speak fluently the language of the Wichita Indians. Lamar, who lives in Anadarko, Ok., learned to speak the language from her grandmother.

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  • Andrea Allen staff 2 years ago
    Travis, this is amazing! Makes me proud to be from Wichita.
  • Soxiam staff 2 years ago
    agreed. really amazing. i've always wondered what it is about the native american language that makes it sound so intelligent, composed and logical. just the most beautifully sonic languages in the world.
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  • Miro Kantarsky plus 2 years ago
    Most amazing, yet so sad that native american culture is dying out. So many nations of proud people.
    I salute you Doris Jean Lamar!
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  • mkk 2 years ago
    Beautiful language! It is so sad that there are so many languages dying. There has been laws made here in Scandic countries lately to strenghten status of Sami languages (Nordic minority languages, Uralic). But there are still Sami languages that only few hundred people speak. In Russia, there is for example Ter Sami that only 6 people speak. And the last person who spoke Akkala Sami died in 2003... Imperialism did its damage.
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  • Carlos Moreno 2 years ago
    this is awesome.
    would love to see more of this.
    When I was doing some freelance work for the Native American Times & the Oklahoma Eagle about 9 years ago, we had an idea to preserve native american culture via online video, thereby passing down oral tradition down from older generations to the newer generations and record it using newer technology.
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