SHE WAS THE LAST FLUENT SPEAKER OF HERO ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE, SO SHE DEVOTED THE FINAL DECADES OF HER LIFE TO MAKING SURE 6,000 WORDS WOULD NOT DIE WITH HER.
WOMEN GET SHIT DONE❤️
Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni anguage fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000 word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.