After Fidelia’s death, her notes on Mohegan, the last descriptive records of the language, were destroyed in a fire.Īfter receiving a graduate degree in Linguistics from MIT and with support from the Mohegan Nation, Stephanie is working on recovering the grammar and vocabulary of the language despite the destruction of Fidelia’s notes. Fidelia and a group of peers learned the language secretly from her grandmother. Stephanie was awarded the Yale Presidential Visiting Fellowship for the 2017–2018 academic year.Īpart from the Algonquian-speaking communities of eastern North America, Mohegan was spoken across the region until its last fluent speaker Fidelia Fielding passed away, Stephanie’s great-great-great aunt. Mohegan Linguist Stephanie Fielding was in residence at Yale throughout the Fall 2017 semester, teaching two classes, including one on Mohegan. Her husband works for Mystic Seaport and Museum. in American and New England studies from Boston University.īecky has said she became interested in the FloGris in 2016, when a New England Museum Association conference was held in Mystic. She also was the first executive director of Winchester Historical Society in Massachusetts.īeaulieu holds a bachelor’s degree in American studies from George Washington University, a master’s in art history and museum studies from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a master’s in arts administration from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. Beaulieu was associate director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. Beaulieu was born in New Hampshire and raised in Milwaukee. We are happy to announce that at Connecticut Humanities’ Annual Meeting at Mystic Seaport on June 21, 2018, our board voted to approve the following new board members:įlorence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme named Rebekah (Becky) Beaulieu as its new executive director February 19, 2018. CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants.Digital Resources for Distance Learning.Why It Matters: Connecticut’s Civic Reconstruction.Democracy and the Informed Citizen: Connecticut’s Sites of Conscience.The Yale Group for the Study of Native America has prioritized partnerships with the state’s Native nations and is delighted to welcome Stephanie to campus. She will be teaching courses on Mohegan and language revitalization. This prestigious award, part of the Initiative for Faculty Excellence and Diversity, recognizes “approximately 10 exceptional scholars and practitioners who contribute to inclusive excellence.” As part of her fellowship, Stephanie will be joining the Department of Linguistics as a lecturer. Stephanie was awarded the Yale Presidential Visiting Fellowship for the 2017–2018 academic year. In 2006, she published A Modern Mohegan Dictionary and subsequent launched the Mohegan Language Project, a website with learning materials for Mohegan. In addition, Stephanie uses reconstructed words from Mohegan’s ancestor language, proto-Algonquian, to deduce what their Mohegan counterparts might have looked like. Such work is done in part by studying historical documents, which often contain Mohegan words, as well as by studying Mohegan words and phrases borrowed into the varieties of English spoken by modern Mohegans. Instead, Fidelia and a group of peers learned the language secretly from her grandmother. Not wanting their children to undergo the experience of being denied their native language, Fidelia’s parents did not teach her to speak Mohegan. As Stephanie recounts in a recent NPR interview, the Mohegan language gradually became dormant as schools prohibited Mohegan students from speaking the language. The Linguistics Department is hosting Fielding’s courses and providing administrative assistance in bringing her to campus.Īpart of the Algonquian-speaking communities of eastern North America, Mohegan was spoken across the region until its last fluent speaker Fidelia Fielding passed away, Stephanie’s great-great-great aunt. Mohegan Linguist Stephanie Fielding will be in residence at Yale throughout the Fall semester, teaching two classes, including one on Mohegan.
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