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  • Scholar sole speaker of Huron language[Canada]

    12/25/2007 10:24:50 AM PST · by BGHater · 29 replies · 96+ views
    The Star ^ | 24 Dec 2007 | John Goddard
    Teacher has published dictionary for once thriving Ontario tribe whose `Huron Carol' is Yule tradition The world's last Huron-language speaker is a white man teaching at Humber College. Anthropologist John Steckley has made the Huron tongue and Huron history his focus for more than 30 years, "and every year I think of how little I knew the year before," he says. Sometimes he feels alone in his interests, he says. At other times, he feels in demand – especially around Christmas and particularly this one. Earlier this month Steckley published an authoritative Huron-English dictionary, the first such volume in more...
  • Poll: JOE ALLOWAY leads PHIL PAVLOV in Michigan House District 81 - Alloway predicted winner

    07/18/2004 9:31:03 AM PDT · by housecandidate · 1 replies · 2,797+ views
    Ann Arbor PTM/UM Polling | July 17, 2004 | Andrea VanAndle
    The poll of 600 likely Republican voters in St. Clair County Michigan’s State Representative District 81 countywide found Alloway leading Pavlov by 12 points, 48 percent to 40 percent in a three-way race with Yale Republican Steve Pray Nader included in the ballot test.