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<div class="headline"><h1>N.W.T. community to offer kindergarten in Tlicho language</h1></div>
<h3 class="deck">First time program is available in 20 years</h3>
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Jun 20, 2012   2:10 PM CT


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Jun 20, 2012   3:04 PM CT


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                        <img src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2012/06/20/li-mary-adelel-mackenzie.jpg" alt="Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child in the new Tlicho Yati kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had been available five years ago as well so that her 10-year-old could have enrolled.">
                        <em class="caption"><br>Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child 
in the new Tlicho Yati kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had
 been available five years ago as well so that her 10-year-old could 
have enrolled. (CBC)</em>
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<div style id="sharecount" class="sclt-share"><div class="gig-bar-container gig-share-bar-container"><br></div></div></div><p>This fall, kindergarten classes in Behchoko, N.W.T., will be offered entirely in the Tlicho language.</p>

<p>This is the first time parents will be able to choose whether to enroll their children in an English or Tlicho immersion class.</p>
<p>Rita Mueller is the CEO of the Tlicho Community Services Agency.</p>
<p>“The advantage for children is to be really grounded in knowing where
 they come from and being able to learn the language so they can speak 
to elders and their grandparents and aunties and uncles whose first 
language has always been Tlicho,” she said.</p><p>Access full article below:</p><p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/06/20/north-tlicho-language-kindergarten.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/06/20/north-tlicho-language-kindergarten.html</a></p>
<p><br></p><p>(via Indigenous Tweets)<br></p>