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Independent Lens Episode 13.05 We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean
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Independent Lens Episode 13.05 We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean

Episode Premiere
November 17, 2011
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
ITVS
Official Site
http://pbs.org/show/independent-lens
Episode Premiere
November 17, 2011
Genre
Documentary
Period
1999 -
Production Co
ITVS
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://pbs.org/show/independent-lens
Main Cast
  • Stanley Tucci

Anne Makepeace's "We Still Live Here—As Nutayunean" tells the story of linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird's work to resurrect the long-forgotten language of the Wampanoag (the Native Americans who saved the Pilgrims from starvation). The documentary details what led Baird, in 1994, to begin the effort to return the dormant language to the living; and also explains the factors that led to the language's extinction a century ago.