<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-weight:700;line-height:38px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:30px">UM sophomore to create Native languages society</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><p class="" style="font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="" style="font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif">Posted: <span class="" title="2014-10-07T14:52:00-06:00" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Tuesday, October 7, 2014 2:52 pm</span> | <em style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Updated: 2:19 am, Wed Oct 8, 2014.</em></p><p class="" style="font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;font-weight:700;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:right"><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Eric Barker for the Montana Kaimin</span></span></p><div id="blox-story-text" class="" style="font-size:12px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,sans-serif"><div id="paging_container" class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:auto;float:none"><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Despite the loss of the University's Blackfoot language classes, students may still have a chance to learn Native languages.</p></span><span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">A proposed Native languages student club is working on getting recognition as a student group from the Associated Students of the University of Montana. The group has 18 Native and non-Native students tentatively signed on. </p><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Jesse Desrosier, a sophomore from the Blackfeet tribe, said he always wanted to organize a Native languages club. When the University had to cancel Elementary Blackfoot 141 and 142 this fall because of the instructor's resignation, Desrosier decided there was no better time. </p><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Desrosier said it's important to promote Native languages to understand the basis of the culture.</p><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">“Understanding my Native language gave me an identity,” he said.</p><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Access full article below: </p><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px"><a href="http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/article_db21e472-4e63-11e4-8de9-001a4bcf6878.html">http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/article_db21e472-4e63-11e4-8de9-001a4bcf6878.html</a></p></span><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>