Preserving a Language and Culture: Teaching Choctaw in the Public Schools (fwd link)

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Preserving a Language and Culture: Teaching Choctaw in the Public Schools

Newswise — Choctaw, a language that once was used for government, commerce,
school and church in the Oklahoma Territory, faces extinction. In a program
that could become a model for other threatened languages, Freddie A. Bowles,
foreign language educator at the University of Arkansas, works with the Choctaw
Nation to preserve and revitalize this indigenous heritage language.

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