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Jessie Little Doe Baird (also Jessie Little Doe Fermino, born 18 November 1963) is a linguist known for her efforts to revive the Wampanoag (Wôpanâak) language.

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Jessie little doe baird of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is on a mission to bring the language back to the Wampanoag people.

Jessie Little Doe Baird is a citizen of the Mashpee tribe, a part of the Wampanoag Nation.

Jessie "Little Doe" Baird is one of USA TODAY's Women of the Century.

Jessie Little Doe Baird said that when she was given an application for a research fellowship at MIT to study anything she wanted, she chose to.

She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010. She founded the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.

She lives in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

Background

In 1992 or 1993, Baird experienced many dreams that she believes to be visions of her ancestors meeting her and speaking in their language, which she did not understand at first.

According to a prophecy of her Wampanoag community, a woman of their kind would leave her home to bring back their language and "the children of those who had had a hand in breaking the language cycle would help heal it." In around the same year, Baird began teaching the Wôpanâak language at tribal sites in Mashpee and Aquinnah.

Education

Baird studied for a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three years later, where she studi