Native nations & living voices
Jessie “Little Doe” Baird
Born 1963
Massachusetts connection
Mashpee; work across Wampanoag communities
Baird is a Mashpee Wampanoag linguist and co-founder of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. Working with other Wampanoag people and historical documents, she has helped bring the language into new generations of speakers. This work involves several communities, including Aquinnah. She is a Mashpee citizen.
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