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On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Language of the Potawatamy Menation Is Anisnabe Mon

I grew up, actually, in potawatomy county in oklahoma. And it sounds like you did not grow up speaking the language of the potawati menation, which is anisnabe. So it delights me that i can be learning an ancient language by completely modern techesis sitting at my office eating lunch, learning potootomy grammar. I never knew or learned anything about what that word meant, much less,. the people and the culture it descri that is so interesting to a place that i is named at. It's almost as if i feel like the air is waiting to hear this language that has been lost for for so long.

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