{"id":5236,"date":"2008-01-24T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2008-01-24T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:12:08","slug":"alaska-last-speaker-of-the-eyak-language-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/alaska-last-speaker-of-the-eyak-language-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska: Last Speaker of the Eyak Language has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Smith Jones was a champion of indigenous rights and conservation. She died at her home in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7206411.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">She helped the University of Alaska compile an Eyak dictionary, so that future generations would have the chance to resurrect it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jones is described by her family as a tiny chain smoking woman who was fiercely independent, says the BBC&#8217;s Peter Bowes in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the best of our knowledge, she was the last full-blooded Eyak alive,&#8221; her daughter Bernice Galloway told the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was a woman who faced incredible adversity in her life and overcame it. She was about as tenacious as you can get.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=5497\" class=\"external external_icon\">warrenellis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7206411.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">bbcnews<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89. Marie Smith Jones was a champion of indigenous rights and conservation. She died at her home in Anchorage. She helped the University of Alaska compile an Eyak dictionary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","category-people-who-died","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}