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Thursday June 11, 2009
 | Linguistics student will focus on Indian language preservation this summer |
Marissa Mastrangeli, a Linguistics major, received a Hilldale Fellowship for a project she will do this summer with Professor Monica Macaulay.
Mastrangeli will create a census of all documents (vocabularies compiled by missionaries, glossaries used by U.S. Indian agents, word lists gathered by fur traders) held by the Wisconsin Historical Society which contain language material from any of the five native languages still spoken in the state (Menominee, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Oneida).
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