<div>GO VIRGINIA! -- She is SO amazing!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:33 PM, phil cash cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Yakama Elder Keeps Her Native Language Alive<br><br>BY RACHAEL MCDONALD<br>Eugene, OR June 3, 2009 12:48 a.m.<br>
USA<br><br>[media download available]<br><br>Lots of people go back to school -- whether it’s to re-train after a lay-off or<br>to finally get a degree after life events have delayed one’s education. But<br>it’s not that often a person in their 80s pursues a doctorate.<br>
<br>That’s what Virginia Beavert is doing at the University of Oregon. The Yakama<br>elder is studying linguistics and teaching her native language Sahaptin. As<br>part of KLCC’s special issues series, Rachael McDonald tells Beavert’s story.<br>
<br>Access full article below:<br><a href="http://news.opb.org/article/5122-yakama-elder-keeps-her-native-language-alive/" target="_blank">http://news.opb.org/article/5122-yakama-elder-keeps-her-native-language-alive/</a><br>
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<div></div><br>-- <br>**********************************************************************************************<br>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br>(Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:spenfiel@nsf.gov">spenfiel@nsf.gov</a><br>
Phone at NSF: 703-292-4535)<br><br><br>Department of English (Primary)<br>Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture, <br>Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>
The Southwest Center<br>University of Arizona,<br>Tucson, Arizona 85721<br><br><br>