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Idaho’s First Public Native American Language School Works To Preserve Shoshone Culture</h1></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><span class="" style="font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:2em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:capitalize">By</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://boisestatepublicradio.org/people/adam-cotterell" rel="author" style="font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:2em;text-transform:uppercase;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(12,76,162);text-decoration:none">ADAM COTTERELL</a><br>
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<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">This new kindergarten classroom on eastern Idaho’s Fort Hall Indian Reservation looks and feels much like any other. Tiny tables and chairs fill the room, bright drawings and artwork hang on the walls, and small coats hang on low-to-the-ground hooks. It’s the sound of the classroom that’s truly one-of-a-kind.<br>
</p><p style="font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">About 30 five-and-six-year-olds are learning to speak Shoshone.</p><p style="font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
“Benna, ne naniha J.J.”</p><p style="font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“Ne naniha Miley.”</p><p style="font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
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