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Endangered Language
Tribal elder to teach Sahaptin at UO

By Victoria Stephens

The UO will be offering an endangered Native American language to its students
this fall. At the request of Native American tribes in the state, a two-year
series of classes in the Sahaptin language will be added to the curriculum.
This is with the hope of supporting and encouraging Native American students
and in order to preserve the language of the original people of the Northwest.
These courses will qualify for the language requirement for BA students.

Sahaptin and its variants are spoken by the native peoples along the
Mid-Columbia River area in Washington and Oregon and are currently spoken on
the Umatilla, Colville, Warm Springs and Yakama reservations.

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