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<font size="4">Sealaska Heritage Institute Granted $455K for Language Revitalization</font></h2></div></div></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:16px">
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To increase the number of fluent Tlingit speakers under 60 years old by 300 percent over three years, the Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a federal grant to fund a Tlingit language Mentor-Apprentice program in Southeast Alaska.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit">The $454,828 grant comes from the Administration of Native Americans for Language Preservation and Maintenance and will establish the mentor-apprentice program that will work toward perpetuating and revitalizing the language.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit">“We now have teachers, we have language learners, and we have material, and so this is absolutely a great event for us to be able to now have a formal program,” SHI President Rosita Worl said in a release.</p>
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