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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Richard Ruiz has published several very
important journal articles. Use the data base LLBA here at the </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>University</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> of </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Arizona Library</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> to identify and find
these. Search his name, Ruiz, Richard, as AUTHOR.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sara</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sara C. Heitshu</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Librarian, Social Science Team</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>American Indian Studies</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>, Linguistics, </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anthropology</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="mailto:heitshus@u.library.arizona.edu">heitshus@u.library.arizona.edu</a></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>520-621-2297</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>fax 520-621-9733</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>University of Arizona Main Library</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>PO Box 210055</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tucson, AZ 85721-0055</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> MiaKalish - LFP
[mailto:MiaKalish@LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 24, 2004
6:53 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: English-Only laws in
AZ</span></font></p>
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face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>Hi,
Susan, </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>I
checked on these two people, and we have 5 books by James Crawford, but none by
Richard Ruiz. A Google search showed him up as a professor in the LRC
with lots of awards. I also found an article he wrote for the Arizona
Star. In it was this very remarkable paragraph, remarkable in the sense that
like Vygotsky's knowledge that text was a second order process 100 years ago,
people knew 30 years ago that if you don't understand the vehicle language, you
can't apprehend what it is transporting: </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>"</span></font>Lau
v. Nichols was decided by the Supreme Court 30 years ago in 1974. It relied on
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (yet another anniversary) to reverse a practice by
San Francisco schools that provided no educational services to Chinese children
that would allow them to understand the language of instruction. While Lau is
often seen as mandating bilingual education, it did not; it did, however, say
this: "There is no equality of treatment merely by providing the students
with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers and curriculum; for students who
do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful
education." "</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>I
didn't know this was a law. I don't know why we are still battling the issue if
there was a Supreme Court decision 30 years ago. Even though we have
technology, and even though we have native speakers of multiple languages in
the academy, and even though there is much research that shows that the
transport language is irrelevant in learning mathematics and the sciences, we
still try to cope with the masked bigotry and discrimination of English-only
materials. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>I
think people need to re-think the paradigms of learning. Today, for the first
time ever in history, younger people know more are many things than younger
people. This is especially true in technology. If we are going to save the
languages and the cultures, I think we need to find ways to incorporate the
skills of the younger people, those "kids" who don't want to learn
their native language and culture because it doesn't seem to fit with what is
current, into developing vibrant, meaningful, useful content. This includes
repetition and recursion from computer science, osmosis and diffusion from
biology, epidemiology, diabetes and multiple sclerosis from medicine.
Alzheimers, and on a fun day, making traditional foods. Here, believe it or
not, "traditional food" has come to mean "fry bread"! </span></font></p>
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face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>Just
my thoughts from the isolated, lonely room of Technology for Meaningful
Learning. </span></font></p>
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face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>Mia</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----- </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:sdp@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU" title="sdp@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU">Susan
Penfield</a> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU" title="ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Wednesday,
September 22, 2004 8:24 AM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Re:
English-Only laws in AZ</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mia,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>You are right. However, many people
(like James Crawford, Richard Ruiz, and others) have tried to do this. The
problem seems to be the matter of getting it out to the general public even
though numerous articles,, citing the cognitive value of being multilingual,
have been published in newspapers/magazines aimed at non-academic audiences.
Still, somehow it never gets for-fronted when politics becomes involved. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Susan</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----- </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:MiaKalish@LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US"
title="MiaKalish@LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US">MiaKalish - LFP</a> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU" title="ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</a>
</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Wednesday,
September 22, 2004 7:12 AM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Re:
English-Only laws in AZ</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>There
is a lot of Psychology research that shows that people who master more than one
language are much "smarter", to use a short-cut, than monolingual
people. This research would make a stunning case if people assembled it, and I
think would be much more effective than the ideological arguments people use in
this type of discussion. </span></font></p>
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face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>Mia</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----- </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:mward@LUNA.CC.NM.US" title="mward@LUNA.CC.NM.US">Matthew Ward</a> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU" title="ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Tuesday,
September 21, 2004 5:06 PM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Re:
English-Only laws in AZ</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>One of the depressing things about the AZ situation,
for me, is that while there are still many countries with repressive laws that
affect minority languages, most countries appear to be moving in a direction of
more and more tolerance. It really is against a worldwide trend.
Even CHINA is liberalizing its language policies to some extent--why are
we falling for this stupidity, when time is so very short? <br>
<br>
It also really makes me very angry that that English-Only movement has used all
of this rhetoric about helping immigrant kids learn English and used it against
indigenous American languages. It's not that I support English-Only in
ANY form, but I do feel quite certain that when most Americans vote for these
laws, they don't intend to vote against Native American languages. It's
very, very devious and evil. If I understand Prop. 203 properly, I think
that it needs a 75% vote to significantly alter it. The only real hope is
that lawsuits and the courts will block it. I believe that's what
happened in Alaska: Native groups challenged the English-only law
(another one of those laws by Unz and his gang of bullies) and it's stuck in
court as a result. I remember reading an article in which some idiot
representative of the English-only movement in Alaska said something like
"We're not against preservation of Native languages, but they have to be
practical. They couldn't use them if they go to Germany."
Well, hell! You could condemn some of the largest languages on
earth on that particular grounds. <br>
<br>
We all need to get a lot more politically savvy. I've found that people
really respond to certain kinds of rhetoric--you can say things like
"Prop. 203 reduces Navajo, an American language that helped win WWII, to
the status of a foreign language." People really turn their heads
when they hear statements like that. Most Americans instinctively
recognize the rightness of preserving indigenous languages, but when they think
that they are voting for "English for the children," then most never
even think about indigenous languages. I'm not a nationalist, but we do
need to point out strongly that were are preserving our own American culture
here. The other side is brilliant at appealing to people's emotions--we
need to do the same thing. We are, after all, on the right side of this
issue. <br>
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Susan Penfield wrote:<br>
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<pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap=""><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>All,</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I'm sure this is a pattern affecting endangered languages in many corners of the</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>world. Thanks for this perspective on the Tucson and Canadian situations. For</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>an indepth discussion of Prop. 203 in Arizona, see this page on James</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Crawford's Language Policy website:</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/az-unz.htm">http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/az-unz.htm</a></span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>It contains a complete explanation of the origin of Prop.203 (spinning out of</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>California...) and the current status of this legislation.</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The tenor of 'English-only' arguments, although aimed at the Mexican-American</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>population, is clearly a threat to anyone working on indigenous language</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>revitalization and we should all be aware of the hidden agendas in this type of</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>language policy.</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Best,</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Susan</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon <a
href="mailto:mikinakn@SHAW.CA"><mikinakn@SHAW.CA></a>:</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Interesting Anecdote:</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>and our children were living in Tucson at the time it more of an issue.</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>There was a major opposition to it by the Mexican Americans. One of the</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>outspoken families was the Rhonstadt family, an old family with signatures</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>on Spanish/ American documentation predating Texas/New</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mexico/Arizona/California statehood. The protests resulted in a response of</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>the nature that the proposition would not be rescinded but it would not be</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>enforced. It appeared, at the time, many people did not realize the extent</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>of the Mexican American remaining in the southwest even to this day and had</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>intended the legislation to be used against the Dene and other native Tribes</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>in Arizona. The Mexican American response seemed to be a total surprise to</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>White rural populations who strongly supported it. Perhaps that is part of</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>the reason why you find 203 is "poorly crafted and even more poorly</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>implemented...."</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>official language legislation in Canada for French and English. That</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Canadian decision around the same time as Prop 203 was 'very' controversial</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>in Canada.</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Here in the city where we live, we had moved to Tucson for my wife to do her</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Grad work at UofA, the mayor, a somewhat colourful/notorious personality,</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>rescinded the legislation and declared Sault Ste. Marie, ON. as an English</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>only city. Both my wife and I were unaware of the Mayor's actions. However,</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>people who knew where relocated from were saying, "Hey, you come from that</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>English only city up in Canada."</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>"No. Canada has two official languages by Federal Legislation: English and</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>French."</span></font></pre><pre
style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>"Oh no. Your mayor just declared your city an English only city."</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>he is Italian and, probably, the largest language group in Sault Ste. Marie</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>outside of English, as Hispanic is in Arizona.</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>also because of official language legislation where we are neither included</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>or excluded.</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>-------</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>rolland nadjiwon</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>----- Original Message -----</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: "Susan Penfield" <a
href="mailto:sdp@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU"><sdp@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU></a></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>To: <a href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU"><ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU></a></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:16 PM</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: Re: English-Only laws in AZ</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Matthew,</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>troubling since, in the beginning of the process, Native people were</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>assured, repeatedly, that they would not be included in the application of</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>this</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>poorly crafted and even more poorly implemented (my opinion, put mildly)</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>proposition.</span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>----- Original Message -----</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: "Matthew Ward" <a
href="mailto:mward@LUNA.CC.NM.US"><mward@LUNA.CC.NM.US></a></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>To: <a href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU"><ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU></a></span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 3:55 PM</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: English-Only laws in AZ</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Just wanted to mention that I've been in touch with ACLU Arizona about</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>the issue of Prop. 203, the English-only law, affecting Native immersion</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>programs. It does indeed seem that Window Rock Public Schools may risk</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>losing funding by continuing their immersion programs, and the issue may</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>have to go to court.</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre style='margin-left:
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>English-only laws do not just apply to immigrants--they also endanger</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>efforts to preserve Native American languages as well. I suspect that</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>if Azizona voters had understood the effect of this law, they wouldn't</span></font></pre><pre
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>have voted for it in the first place.</span></font></pre><pre
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