THORNTON MEDIA, INC. IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE TOOL COMPANY IN THE WORLD DEVOTED TO NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES.

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THORNTON MEDIA, INC. ( HTTP://WWW.NDNTV.COM ) IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE TOOL
COMPANY IN THE WORLD DEVOTED TO NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES.
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(I-Newswire) - Banning, CA, January 25, 2006 -- Several generations of
American Indians from the 1930s to the 1970s were sent to U.S.
Government boarding schools where they were not allowed to speak their
native languages.

Native students of that era who spoke their language were severely
punished.

"My mother was part of that boarding school era where Indian kids were
made to be ashamed to be Indian," said Cherokee businessman, Don
Thornton. Now Thornton uses U.S. Government technology to revitalize the
native languages that were decimated during that era.

The revolutionary Phraselator P2, developed by defense contractor Voxtec
International in the aftermath of 9/11, is a handheld unit that allows
the user to instantly translate spoken English words and phrases into
any Native  language. "Phraselator holds tens or thousands of phrases,
words and songs in one machine. You can hold your entire language in
the palm of your hand," said  Thornton. Since early 2005, dozens of
Native speakers have begun recording their languages onto the hi-tech
machines. Many are among the last speakers of their languages.

"After I played with it I cried. This will help save our language," said
Jane Dumas, a Kumeyaay elder from Southern California.

Thornton Media, Inc. is the only language tool company in the world
devoted to Native Languages. Recently they announced their move into
the international market with the addition of six Canadian Reserves to
their tribal client list of 30 tribes. A consortium of Blackfeet Tribes
in Alberta purchased 28 Phraselator units for language revitalization.

"This is a very interesting tool with tremendous potential. It has the
ability to focus on our language and how precise it is," said Keith
Weasel Head, from the Kainai Board of Education in Alberta, Canada. In
the launching of the product, TMI has provided on-site training to
native language teachers and speakers in widespread areas of North
America at minimal costs, often barely making a profit due to travel
costs. They have traveled mainly to reservations in California,
Oklahoma, Montana, North Carolina, Alaska and Canada to record with
often the last native speakers of their languages.

During their journeys, many heart warming stories were told. "I have
been waiting for such a tool all my life. Phraselator is what I need,"
said Terry Brokie, a Gros Vente language teacher in Montana. "It is a
great tool that can give us our whole world in our hand," said Ken
Tuffy Helpeson, a Nakota language teacher in Montana.

"It's ironic," said Thornton, "that this tool, created by the US
Government may help to save the languages that they attempted to wipe
out for generations. With Phraselator tribes can now have full control
over their languages without the help of outsiders. TMI don't own a
database of the recordings of any tribe. The only one I own was
recorded by my grandma, Lucinda Robbins, a master speaker of Cherokee."

Don Thornton ( Cherokee ), a filmmaker in Southern California founded
TMI in 1996 to create positive images of American Indians. Thornton is
a former Indian journalist who also worked in social services for many
years. He created and ran the cutting-edge American Indian Clubhouse in
Los Angeles ( from 1996-99 ), an after-school program for Indian kids in
LA, which the National Indian Review referred to as a "bright shining
light in urban Indian Country." An interest in neuroscience and brain
development led Thornton to adapt hi-tech language products to Native
languages.

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For more information, please contact Don & Kara Thornton USA +1
818.406.3555 Thornton Media Inc. - http://www.ndntv.com