<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-seriff">MN School Helps Revival of Native American Languages</h1><div id="articlesubheadlinks" style="font-size:10px;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:12px;list-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-seriff"><div id="listlinks" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 6px 0px 0px;float:left"><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/state-minnesota/MN" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold">Public News Service - MN</a> </div><div id="listlinks" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 6px 0px 0px;float:left"><br></div></div><h6 style="font-size:large;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-seriff"><br></h6><h6 style="font-size:large;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-seriff">October 1, 2014</h6><p style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px;padding:8px 0px;line-height:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-seriff">MINNEAPOLIS - As the number of speakers fluent in Native American languages continues to fade, a Minnesota school like few others in this nation is helping to keep those languages alive.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">The Bdote Learning Center in Minneapolis is a year-round charter school where the students are immersed in either Dakota or Ojibwe. Interim Director Mike Huerth said it's an incredibly important time for both.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">"My sons live on a reservation that has lost its language," he said. "There are no more speakers alive in that tribe - and it's a very sad thing, because once a language dies, it doesn't come back."</p><p style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px;padding:8px 0px;line-height:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-seriff">Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2014-10-01/education/mn-school-helps-revival-of-native-american-languages/a41990-1">http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2014-10-01/education/mn-school-helps-revival-of-native-american-languages/a41990-1</a><br></div><br></div></div>