<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are writing to you under the aegis of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) to ask your help with a CAL project involving Native American language immersion camps. CAL is one of several partners in the Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages (
<a href="http://www.cal.org/heritage/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cal.org/heritage/index.html</a>), an organization devoted to the preservation, instruction, and advancement of heritage languages in the U<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
nited States</span>. Part of the Alliance's efforts is the inventory and documentation of US heritage language programs in all their forms – community-based, school-based, independent, etc. -- in order to have a comprehensive database to assist instruction, assessment, research, policy, and advocacy. We are having difficulty
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> locating and </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">documenting Native American language immersion camps</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
, and</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to make the database as comprehensive as possible, we need information on them. Knowing your position in the field, we would like to ask you if you would be able to help us identify such camps. Would you be able to provide leads or introductions to the program directors and/or tribes running these camps? We have a standard set of questions that we ask about all heritage language programs, but to ask these questions of Native American language camps, we first need to locate them and then have contact with someone who administers them. Any help you might provide in this respect would be greatly appreciated. Please respond to Bill Frawley at
<a href="mailto:bfrawley@cal.org">bfrawley@cal.org</a>.<span></span> </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bill Frawley</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, Center for Applied Linguistics</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Erin Haynes</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, Center for Applied Linguistics, </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
UC Berkeley</span></p>