New Mexico: Classes aim to preserve urban Indians' heritage

[Francis Hult]

Seattle Post Intelligencer

 

Classes aim to preserve urban Indians' heritage

 

When Brittany Arviso was old enough to take part in a Navajo coming-of-age ceremony, her family grappled with the preparations. Not knowing where to find some of the items for the ceremony, they turned to her grandparents for help.

 

Her father and grandfather went up into the mountains to get some plants and other things for the four-day ceremony.

 

But there was one thing that 12-year-old Brittany didn't have and wished she did had - knowing more of her native language so she could better understand the ceremony.

 

Full story:

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_nm_indians_summer_school.html

 

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