#  We Speak, Therefore We Are 

 





November 27, 2017

 

 

Marcus Briggs-Cloud, MTS ’10, has dedicated his life to revitalizing his ancestral tongue and the cultural identity it sustains.

An indigenous Maskoke, for more than a decade he has been teaching his native language to college and high school students and preverbal infants, including his own children, to whom he has never spoken a word of English. He returned to the Divinity School in October 2017 to participate in the biennial Native American Speaker Series.

For part two of a two-part series of discussions with Native American language preservationists, Briggs-Cloud sat down with the [*Harvard Gazette*](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/) to discuss his work since leaving Cambridge.



 

 

 

 Harvard University · We speak, therefore we are 

 



 

 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Alumni News and Activities ](/news-category/alumni-news-and-activities)
- [ Language Study ](/topic-tags/language-study)
- [ Native Americans ](/topic-tags/native-americans)