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<title>Using art to preserve rare alphabets </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 29, 2012) What started as a way to make unique Christmas gifts for family and friends has grown into a passion to admire and preserve some of the rarest writing systems in the world.  For the last few years, Burlington writer Tim Brookes has created handmade wood carvings in an attempt to help save alphabets at risk of vanishing.  Brookes is an accomplished author who directs the writing program at Champlain College.  While there are thousands of spoken languages worldwide, Brookes says there are fewer than a hundred alphabets, and many of them are threatened with extinction.Tim Brookes will take some of the carvings in his “Endangered Alphabets” art and literacy project on the road again this summer.  He spoke with Todd Moe about the reasons why written letters and symbols are disappearing, and his memorial to them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19893/20120529/using-art-to-preserve-rare-alphabets">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What started as a way to make unique Christmas gifts for family and friends has grown into a passion to admire and preserve some of the rarest writing systems in the world.  For the last few years, Burlington writer Tim Brookes has created handmade wood carvings in an attempt to help save alphabets at risk of vanishing.  Brookes is an accomplished author who directs the writing program at Champlain College.  While there are thousands of spoken languages worldwide, Brookes says there are fewer than a hundred alphabets, and many of them are threatened with extinction.Tim Brookes will take some of the carvings in his “Endangered Alphabets” art and literacy project on the road again this summer.  He spoke with Todd Moe about the reasons why written letters and symbols are disappearing, and his memorial to them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19893/20120529/using-art-to-preserve-rare-alphabets">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<title>Mohawks seek recognition for WWII code talkers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 8, 2012) A Mohawk veterans group wants the federal government to recognize the contributions of “code talkers” during the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War Two.   The Navajo “code talkers” were the largest group of Native Americans during the 1940’s to use their language skills in the south Pacific against the Japanese.  Jeffrey Whelan, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Veterans Affairs Committee, says many other tribes participated as &quot;code talkers&quot; during the war.  He says the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council has sent a letter of request to the U.S. Mint to develop a Congressional Medal for nine veterans at Akwesasne who used their native language to confuse the Germans. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19457/20120308/mohawks-seek-recognition-for-wwii-code-talkers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Todd Moe</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Mohawk veterans group wants the federal government to recognize the contributions of “code talkers” during the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War Two.   The Navajo “code talkers” were the largest group of Native Americans during the 1940’s to use their language skills in the south Pacific against the Japanese.  Jeffrey Whelan, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Veterans Affairs Committee, says many other tribes participated as &quot;code talkers&quot; during the war.  He says the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council has sent a letter of request to the U.S. Mint to develop a Congressional Medal for nine veterans at Akwesasne who used their native language to confuse the Germans. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19457/20120308/mohawks-seek-recognition-for-wwii-code-talkers">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>akwesasne, mohawks, peace, code talkers, world war two, st. regis, soldiers, language, topstory, [loc:44.9789825 -74.6490730]</itunes:keywords>
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<title>SUNY Plattsburgh celebrates international education, awareness</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18773/20111116/suny-plattsburgh-celebrates-international-education-awareness</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 16, 2011) SUNY Plattsburgh is celebrating International Education Week with a series of workshops, lectures, debates and the &quot;Night of Nations&quot; cultural showcase on Saturday. Todd Moe talks with Student Association president, PJ Shah, an international student from Nepal, about the lure of attending college in Plattsburgh. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18773/20111116/suny-plattsburgh-celebrates-international-education-awareness">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Todd Moe</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[SUNY Plattsburgh is celebrating International Education Week with a series of workshops, lectures, debates and the &quot;Night of Nations&quot; cultural showcase on Saturday. Todd Moe talks with Student Association president, PJ Shah, an international student from Nepal, about the lure of attending college in Plattsburgh. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18773/20111116/suny-plattsburgh-celebrates-international-education-awareness">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>09:36</itunes:duration>
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