Olson plan would sustain, promote Dakota and Ojibwe languages (fwd link)

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Olson plan would sustain, promote Dakota and Ojibwe languages

Brad Swenson Bemidji Pioneer
Published Sunday, June 22, 2008

American Indian languages could become extinct unless renewed efforts to make
Dakota and Ojibwe classroom subjects succeed, believes Sen. Mary Olson,
DFL-Bemidji.

And she apparently has Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren on her
side, as a meeting is planned this week to set an agenda and formally establish
a committee to study over the legislative interim how to sustain and promote
language immersion programs.

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