Coming home: Gayogoho:no? language programs expand reach
October 04, 2023
October 04, 2023
ITHACA, New York, Oct. 4 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Oliver Peck Lambert '27 has been studying the Gayogoho:no? language since high school.
This summer, Jim Wikel, a member of the Gayogoho:no? diaspora who now lives in Oregon, traveled to his ancestral homeland in New York for the first time, to learn his ancestral language with 40 other diaspora members at a Cornell camp.
Just being in the region was profound, Wikel said.
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Oliver Peck Lambert '27 has been studying the Gayogoho:no? language since high school.
This summer, Jim Wikel, a member of the Gayogoho:no? diaspora who now lives in Oregon, traveled to his ancestral homeland in New York for the first time, to learn his ancestral language with 40 other diaspora members at a Cornell camp.
Just being in the region was profound, Wikel said.
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