Preserving a Dying Language - Marie Wilcox & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

The United States, a country covers a landmass that was once home to a wide diversity of native languages, primarily communicates in just a handful of tongues now. But to try to stave off the extinction of yet another native language, Marie Wilcox, a Wukchumni Native American in Northern California, has taken to writing down all of the words she can recall from her childhood language and creating her own dictionary, which has now grown to over 145 pages in length. Documentarian Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee learned about Wilcox's efforts to save her language and told her story in the short film "Marie's Dictionary".