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Tlingit ventriloquism, a way to keep the language alive</h1>By Lisa Phu<br>Posted on November 14, 2013 at 9:41 pm</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">[media link available]</div><div class="gmail_default">
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Like many other indigenous languages, Tlingit is in survival mode. Revitalizing the language was the focus of this year’s <a href="http://ankn.uaf.edu/ClanConference2/course/view.php?id=5" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(23,138,205);text-decoration:none">Tlingit Tribes and Clans Conference</a> held in Juneau last week.</p>
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A Juneau resident has one solution for how to keep the language alive. During a conference session, realtor and assemblyman Carlton Smith gave participants a lesson in how to teach Tlingit to children with puppets. And he does it with the help of a special guest.</p>
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