532. Eli Langley, part 2

<div>532. Part 2 of our <a href="http://archive.org/download/532-eli-langley-coushatta-tribe-part-2/532--Eli_Langley--Coushatta_tribe--part_2.mp3" target="_blank">conversation</a> with Eli Langley, a member of the Coushatta Tribe and a graduate of Harvard. “Eli Langley ’21 grew up in a family devoted to safeguarding the culture, history, and language of the Coushatta Tribe. His father, a tribal cultural adviser, and his mother, an anthropologist and tribal historian, nourished him with Native folktales and inspired him early on to take pride in his roots. <a name='more'></a>At 12, he asked his parents to send him to a boarding school to challenge himself academically. At 18, he learned Koasati, the language of his tribe, becoming its youngest speaker, and in 2016, he became the first member of the Coushatta Tribe to be admitted to Harvard. Now, upon his graduation this month, he will become the first tribal member to use their Native language to fulfill the College’s second language requirement.... 'My story is a continuation of my people’s story,' said Langley. 'I’m a cog in the wheel, and I stand on the shoulders of giants. I know that I’m only able to undertake these things with the strength and the knowledge of my culture.'” (<a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/eli-langley-21-preserves-language-of-the-coushatta-tribe/">Harvard Gazette</a>) <ol type="a"><li>This week in Louisiana history. July 21 1861 William T Sherman (former head of LSU) was the Union General to lead forces at the battle of Manassas, Va. </li><li>This week in New Orleans history. The Carondelet streetcar began its run on July 29, 1866.&nbsp; This uptown line ran on its namesake street from Canal Street to Napoleon Ave. At its most extensive, it also ran on Freret Street from Napoleon to Broadway, on trackage that eventually became part of the Freret line, and it crossed Canal Street into the French Quarter, pioneering the rou