Language revitalization for Mashpee Wampanoag youth

Nitana Hicks Greendeer, Ph.D. ’14 (Curriculum and Instruction), is driving a language revitalization project for Mashpee Wampanoag youth. She and other linguistic scholars and educators are bringing back the Wôpanâak language, which was lost for generations. Greendeer is a postdoctoral fellow in American, Native American, and Indigenous Studies at Brown University. Read more in Brown Alumni Magazine. Photo: Leah Fasten, courtesy: Brown Alumni Magazine