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The Nęyękwawętaˀθkwáhshek Tuscarora Language Program (NTLP) is a community-based group of language advocates whose mission is to revive a Tuscarora speaking community amongst families of the Tuscarora Nation, re-establish oral fluency of the Tuscarora language, and ultimately create Tuscarora first-language speakers. It is the NTLP’s vision that the Language will once again become the first language of new babies in our community, spoken in day to day business and life as well as at community events.
The Bird Logo
The Bird Logo
Our bird logo is inspired by the story of how the Tuscarora language came to our people. The designs on the bird also reflect motifs found in Tuscarora raised beadwork.
Long ago, everyone spoke the same language. There was a great tree and on the end of one of the many branches of this tree was perched a bird. Whenever this bird hopped onto a new branch it would cause new languages to fall from the tree, giving different languages to all humans.
With this story in mind, we see everyone as capable of being a language 'bird' hopping from branch to branch spreading our language throughout the Tuscarora community, across the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and beyond.
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