[Algonquiana] Fwd: [ilat] Browning First To Use Native Language Immersion Funds (fwd link)

[MONICA MACAULAY]

Interesting article!  (apologies to those of you also on ILAT!)

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Date: December 15, 2015 at 2:12:19 PM CST
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Browning First To Use Native Language Immersion Funds
By MIRIAM HALL • 19 HOURS AGO
​ USA​
This year, the Montana state legislature passed a bill that provides funding for public schools to start immersion programs in native languages. It’s part of an effort to preserve these fragile cultures. Across the United States, about 115 languages have been lost in the last five centuries. But so far, the Browning school system, on the southern part of the Blackfeet Reservation, is the only district to take the money.

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​http://mtpr.org/post/browning-first-use-native-language-immersion-funds


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