Oklahoma students earn credit for American Indian language classes (fwd link)

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*Oklahoma students earn credit for American Indian language classes*

Oklahoma schools can now give credit for Native American language classes.

Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013 12:00 am | *Updated: 5:02 am, Thu Dec
26, 2013.*


*By HENRY DOLIVE For NewsOK.com <http://newsok.com/>*

*STROUD -— Emily Nanaeto, Christian Wright and 14 of their Stroud High
School classmates begin their school day talking about everyday things -—
not in English, but in Sauk, the language once native to the Sac and Fox
tribe.The introductory Sauk class is being taught this semester at Stroud
and Shawnee high schools in cooperation with the Sac and Fox Nation's Sauk
Language Department.*

*The class is offered at Stroud High School for the first time this year
and will continue in the spring semester, said Terrie Kinsey, Sauk Language
Department coordinator for the Sac and Fox Nation. The class was launched
last year at Shawnee High School.*Access full article below:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/education/oklahoma-students-earn-credit-for-american-indian-language-classes/article_e82f4668-1a28-5d18-b9de-bf1742b94638.html
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