Navajo language suppressed

[Francis Hult]

Gallup Independent

 

Rights panel: Navajo language suppressed

 

Suppression of speaking the Navajo language was common in the 1950s and 1960s when Navajo children were shipped off to boarding schools. Parts of the language used by Navajo Code Talkers during World War II was declared "classified information" and not declassified until 1969.

 

Yet in 2009, despite immersion programs, speaking the Navajo language is discouraged in classroom instruction, Cuba Independent School District teacher Novalene Meyers told the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission during a recent public hearing.

 

Full story:

http://www.gallupindependent.com/2009/06June/060509rightspanel.html

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