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Native languages must be saved, educators say</div><div id="subHeadline" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 14px;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left">Education » State and educators put tribes in the spotlight.</div>
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By Peg Mcentee</p><p class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;font-weight:bold;float:left">| The Salt Lake Tribune</p><div class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;clear:both"></div>First Published Aug 19 2013 04:34 pm • Last Updated Aug 19 2013 10:25 pm</div>
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Over several years, Native American educators and Utah tribal and state leaders have collaborated on a program offering Navajo and other native students courses on their own language, culture, history, government and character development.</p>
<p class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;line-height:20px">It is a way for students who may know little about their heritage to learn a language and culture that are inseparable, says Clayton Long, bilingual education director in the San Juan School District.</p>
<p class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px;line-height:20px"></p><p class="" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 12px">Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56755488-90/american-education-educators-indian.html.csp">http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56755488-90/american-education-educators-indian.html.csp</a><br>
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