Kevin Graman, Staff writer
USK, Wash. - For the first time in a couple generations, young people are speaking ancient words of hope for Native Americans on the brink of losing the first language of the Inland Northwest. Thanks to an innovative language acquisition program, Salish is being spoken on the Kalispel Indian Reservation in northeastern [...]

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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Keyboard overlays help teach students the Cherokee language.
By CLIFTON ADCOCK World Staff Writer
TAHLEQUAH - Hunkered over the white laptop computer on her desk, Rachel Ballou began to type.

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Lynn Fischer, Sun Special Writer
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe is revitalizing their native language within their community.
In hopes of preserving the Anishinaabe language, the tribe has developed a new language immersion program from the ground up.

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by hunwut
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By PAT MUIR, Yakima Herald-Republic
YAKIMA, Wash. — There are only about 200 or so remaining Sahaptin speakers, and there may never be another as fluent as 88-year-old Virginia Beavert.
But Sahaptin, a general term for the language that includes the Yakama dialect, will live on.

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by hunwut
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Play-by-play commentary in aboriginal languages a labour of love, creativity
Paul Watson
VANCOUVER-There is no word for seconds in the Mohawk language, which makes it especially difficult to call the action in an Olympic ski race live for television.

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by hunwut
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Written by ALEXANDRA ZAYAS, 
St. Petersburg Times
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - He was 28. She was 11. Her parents said they gave consent, claiming cultural norms of the Guatemalan highlands. But in Dover, Florida, a little girl with a baby raises questions.

Posted on February 12th, 2010 by hunwut
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Kyle Turner - Staff Writer
UT linguistics professor Jeffrey Davis spoke on the intricate system of sign language employed by Native American Indians at last week’s Science Forum.

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John Peabody Harrington relentlessly studied Indian families for decades. Today, a 71-year-old woman who considered him a pest is grateful for his intense scholarship.
By Steve Chawkins
Everyone thought the tall, strange white man was some kind of genius. But to teenage Ernestine De Soto he was a giant pain in the neck, a nosy, “Ichabod Crane-like” [...]

Posted on January 31st, 2010 by hunwut
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by Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio
White Earth, Minn. - A charter school on the White Earth Indian Reservation is using traditional culture and language to get kids and parents excited about education.

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Associated Press
WHITE SHIELD, N.D. (AP) - The Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota says 1 of the remaining few elders who could teach the Arikara language has died.
Maude Starr, whose American Indian name meant Yellow Calf Woman, died Jan. 20 at the age of 71. Her funeral was held Wednesday in the Fort Berthold Reservation [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2010 by hunwut
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