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Passionate believers in Native heritage prod legislators to recognize languages</h1></div></div></div><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;zoom:1">
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JUNEAU -- After 15 hours in the state Capitol, a determined group of Alaska Natives won a legislative victory when a bill recognizing their languages and heritage won final approval by the Alaska Legislature.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">
The Alaska House of Representatives approved the language bill 38-0 last week, but it had been bottled up in the Senate until 3 a.m. Monday. The measure identifies a host of Native languages as official, though the bill does not require the state to print ballots or take any other official action in the varied aboriginal tongues of Alaska.</p>
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