“Chief Marie Smith Jones, the last full-blooded Eyak and last Native speaker of the Eyak language, died Monday….” ==> Full Story Here Some related thoughts: Is the passing of a language the passing of a people? That is, how are we to think about the surviving Eyaks? Does it matter that none of the surviving Eyaks (apparently) are full-blooded? What relationship (if any) does a language have to the “bloodedness” of its speakers? Do different languages encode differing and characteristic modes of perception? For example, does a Japanese-only speaker perceive things that I, who don’t speak Japanese, cannot perceive? Can…Read More