<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="" style="background-image:none;font-size:24px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;text-align:left">Nevada Proud: Students get a chance to learn native language in school</h1>
<div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-align:right">Published: 10/16 5:51 pm</span><div><br></div><div>SPANISH SPRINGS, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) - Paiute elder Reynelda James teaches her native language at Spanish Springs High School.<br>
<br>The students learn vocabulary, pronunciation and tribal customs.  <br><br>"Some pick it up very quickly.  For others it's a little bit hard," James said.<br><br>It's a language that even many native Paiutes do not speak fluently, because for decades Paiute children growing up in northern Nevada were required by the federal government to attend a boarding school in Carson City where they learned English, not Paiute.  <br>
<br>"They brought them to these schools to immerse them in a different culture. They were not allowed to speak their native language once they got here, said Sherry Rupert, executive director of the Nevada Indian Commission.<br>
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