Monday, December 24, 2007

Only one man speaks Indian language - A white man


Canada - 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. The Huron were a mostly agricultural people living between two water bodies now called Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay in Canada. Their first contact with white people came with the arrival of French fur traders in the early 1600s. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty Nutty News Advertising