MailTribune.com: Pair breathe life into dead language

MailTribune.com: Pair breathe life into dead language: "In 1933, anthropologist John Peabody Harrington chauffeured the last known fluent Takelma speaker, Frances Johnson, from the Siletz Reservation near Newport to the Rogue River Valley to capture some of the phrases and stories of the dying indigenous language.

During the trip, Harrington took about 1,200 pages of field notes on the language, now extinct, said storyteller Thomas Doty.
If you go

What: Presentation on the Takelma language and stories about traditional myths.

When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19.

Where: Talent Historical Society, 150 N. Market St., Talent.

Admission: Free.

Another presentation is set for 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at the library at Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.

For details about the Takelma Language Project, visit www.dotycoyote.com.

Johnson died the following year"