Return to storytelling could encourage young Natives to preserve languages (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Return to storytelling could encourage young Natives to preserve languages
KOYUKON: Youth convention's keynote speaker cites tradition.

The Associated Press
Published: October 19th, 2010 09:40 PM
USA

FAIRBANKS -- Alaska Native elders and young people are being
encouraged to take the time to talk to each other to help preserve
their languages and traditions.

Eliza Jones, keynote speaker at the First Alaskans Institute's Elders
and Youth Conference in Fairbanks, said both generations will need
patience and determination, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

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