School board faces Native language issue (fwd link)

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School board faces Native language issue

December 27, 2007 at 11:59AM AKST
THE FISHERMAN STAFF

Next year may see the return of instruction in Unangam Tunuu – the Native
language spoken by the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands – in the
Unalaska City School District.

That's the hope of Katherine McGlashan, an Unangan/Aleut herself, and an active
group of Unalaska residents, including educators, former teachers, parents, the
Museum of the Aleutians and Ounalashka Corp., the representative Alaska Native
corporation.

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