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> Subject: [NativeNews] Tribal Program Preserves Native Language, Culture
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> June 2006
> Tribal Program Preserves Native Language, Culture
>
> By Fred Delkin
>
> _http://oregonmag.com/FDNatLang606.html_
> (http://oregonmag.com/FDNatLang606.html)
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> Editor's Note:  In  2001 Oregon Magazine published an editorial 
> criticizing a
> Umatilla Reservation  program to teach tribal schoolchildren their native
> language, stating that  this effort sidestepped the English language 
> skills these
> students need for  their economic future.  This misguided opinion piece 
> was
> labeled "racist"  by a tribal spokesperson.  The following describes this
> program that has  obvious cultural worth.
>
> The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation have combined both
> private foundation and federal funds to establish a master-apprentice 
> Language
> Preservation program in the tribal Nixyaawii community school serving 
> grades
> 9-12 on the reservation just east of Pendleton in northeastern Oregon.
> This three-year project partners students with tribal elders still 
> speaking
> native languages.  At project's end the apprentices are eligible for
> licensure by the tribe and the state of Oregon's Teacher Standards and 
> Practices
> Commission as teachers of Cayuse/Nez Perce, Umatilla and Walla Walla 
> languages.
> The Umatilla reservation was established  in 1855 by treaty and was 
> united
> by a single tribal government in 1949.  There are currently 2,525 
> enrolled
> tribal members and a reservation of 158,000 acres.
> We salute tribal chairman Albert Minthorn for his direction of an 
> outstanding
> effort to maintain tribal heritage.  This includes a just-concluded 
> Culture
> Camp May 15-19 for 40 Nixyaawii students learning traditional tribal 
> values.
> An "Entrepeneur Workshop" has guided students in specific  techniques for
> starting a business..."strategies for maximizing personal  satisfaction 
> and
> profits."  June 15-22 16 students will participate in  "journeys in 
> creativity:
> explorations in Native Art &  Culture."
> Certainly the Confederated Umatilla tribes are dedicated to guiding their
> members into a bright future.
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> © 2006 Oregon Magazine
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