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Two of the last speakers of Euchee

Maxine Wildcat Barnett (at left) and Josephine Wildcat Bigler say their grandmother always demanded that they speak their native language. “As long as you live in my house,” she said, “you speak Euchee!” Here the Wildcat sisters visit their grandmother’s grave in a cemetery behind Pickett Chapel, a Methodist church in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

6:14 pm  •  19 June 2012  •  22 notes