  {"id":24094,"date":"2021-08-03T16:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=24094"},"modified":"2021-08-08T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T17:56:31","slug":"umaine-news-lukens-speaks-with-bdn-about-penobscot-language-book-of-folktales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2021\/08\/03\/umaine-news-lukens-speaks-with-bdn-about-penobscot-language-book-of-folktales\/","title":{"rendered":"91¸£Àû News: Lukens speaks with BDN about Penobscot language book of folktales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margo Lukens, professor of English at 91¸£Àû, talked with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2021\/07\/18\/news\/new-penobscot-language-book-of-folktales-aims-to-preserve-tribes-culture\/\">Bangor Daily News<\/a>\u00a0about the recently published book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umasspress.com\/9781625345790\/still-they-remember-me\/\">\u201c\u2018Still They Remember Me\u2019: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Vol. 1.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Lukens co-authored the book with Carol Dana, Penobscot language master, and Conor Quinn, linguistics faculty at the University of Southern Maine, as a teaching tool for Penobscot citizens seeking to relearn their language and to preserve Penobscot culture and identity.<\/p>\n<p>Margo gave a talk on the development of the book, and how traditional stories can help to create a more sustainable future, as part of the Mitchell Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/seminars\/\">Sustainability Talks series<\/a> in April 2021. View a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showcase\/4405300\/video\/533672281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recording<\/a> of this talk on our Vimeo page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teaching of the stories connects to how you make your life in a place,\u201d Margo noted in her talk. \u201cVery often, [these] stories are about restoring balance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margo Lukens, professor of English at 91¸£Àû, talked with the\u00a0Bangor Daily News\u00a0about the recently published book,\u00a0\u201c\u2018Still They Remember Me\u2019: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Vol. 1.\u201d\u00a0Lukens co-authored the book with Carol Dana, Penobscot language master, and Conor Quinn, linguistics faculty at the University of Southern Maine, as a teaching tool for Penobscot citizens seeking to relearn their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24094"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24144,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions\/24144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}