petition to Congress for native language programs in ANA and HHS budget

[Ackerman, Ilse]

I saw this in this month's Cultural Survival newsletter:

 

United States: Support Native Languages

Among the more than 300 original languages spoken in the United States,
only 155-175 remain.  Scholars estimate that only 20 of these remaining
indigenous languages are being transmitted to native children. Seventy
languages could vanish within the next 10 years without immediate and
significant funding for tribal language programs.  
 
Please sign our petition to Congress
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001TXIxvz3mf1RKR4E55zyhjvldztbv3AWNsnGRj3sCZAY8
M63Nh0yivvTslad_TvllZfzZ9a_juRRrBRCcKt3JKJuMjs1US2zygAoHAzE5oxWj0bZiKzAD
uN7_08k8gVwGnkFGKZmX4kD6tXZ3Z07i2g8lgF1GKizyDLLOVFYkQNmClQBQ0LNvlg==>
urging support of funding for native language programs in the FY 2009
budget of the Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health
and Human Services.  With its historic passage of the Esther Martinez
Native American Languages Preservation Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-394),
Congress recognized the critical funding needs of native language
revitalization efforts.  The FY 2008 budget included $2 million in
Esther Martinez Language Preservation Act funding, but several hundred
tribes must compete for these 25-45 grants.
 
Join Cultural Survival and the National Alliance to Save Native
Languages in sending the message to Congress that revitalizing native
languages is critical to native cultural identity, spirituality, and
survival, as well as to the success of native students in school and
throughout life.
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001TXIxvz3mf1RKR4E55zyhjvldztbv3AWNsnGRj3sCZAY8
M63Nh0yivvTslad_TvllZfzZ9a_juRRrBRCcKt3JKJuMjs1US2zygAoHAzE5oxWj0bZiKzAD
uN7_08k8gVwGnkFGKZmX4kD6tXZ3Z07i2g8lgF1GKizyDLLOVFYkQNmClQBQ0LNvlg==>   

Read more about the campaign.
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001TXIxvz3mf1T_CN6XT7t2w9oDJ6zKnOQMngs-DnOyAcF-
NIejynjbJOklLb519mlQW8gfDMtCzfr1xpyjnxzCAMtRphVfN4BfLmMn5Imr_Ixp9YS-OLjF
BCjVUTrnZCeKieusp-XDyFIjlIUEOMFE-hmDDyY2uw-C>   

 

 

 

~ ilse

 

Ilse Ackerman
Editor-in-chief

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