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The Beatles' "Blackbird" performed in the indigenous Mi'kmaq language by a 16-year-old girl [1]
['Mark Frauenfelder']
Date: 2023-01-02
Emma Stevens, 16, is a member of the Eskasoni First Nation in Unama'ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia. In this video, she is singing The Beatles' "Blackbird" in Mi'kmaq, a language spoken by about 11,000 people.
From WBUR:
Stevens had the help of Katani Julian, who works in language revitalization. It's part of a combined effort to spread awareness of Indigenous language and culture.
"My language is very different from other ones," Stevens says. "There's a lot of syllables in ours. And there's a lot of long words that translate into something really easy in English."
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