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<div class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;width:auto"><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">FORT HALL, Idaho - Reviving the Shoshoni, and, eventually, the Bannock language, is the goal of the Chief Tahgee Elementary Academy, a language immersion charter school opening this fall in Fort Hall.</p>
</span><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">"Our native languages are on the verge of becoming extinct because only the older people are speaking (them)," language specialist Merceline Boyer said. "Our younger kids are not picking it up; and it's important because language is our (cultural) identity."</p>
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