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Posted: <span class="" title="2013-10-21T19:00:00-06:00" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Monday, October 21, 2013 7:00 pm</span> | <em style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Updated: 11:53 pm, Mon Oct 21, 2013.</em></p>
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The New Mexican</span></span> </p><div id="blox-story-text" class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left"><div id="paging_container" class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:none;width:auto">
<span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:21px">Mary Linn was looking for a way to preserve Oklahoma’s American Indian languages when she met Comanche tribe member Geneva Navarro, who gave her the idea of a language fair, which they started together in 2003.</p>
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Since then, the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair has drawn thousands of American Indian kids from there and neighboring states. At this year’s fair, there were more than 900 registered students.</p></span><div class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:17px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:21px">“The kids really remember it all their lives. And then we’ve had parents and teachers who write in, that say, ‘My kid wasn’t really interested in school, but she’s really excited about her language class now,’ ” Linn said after speaking to more than 200 attendees Monday at the fourth annual Indigenous Language Institute Symposium north of Santa Fe.</p>
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