School board faces Native language issue (fwd link)

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School board faces Native language issue

December 27, 2007 at 2:00PM AKST

THE FISHERMAN STAFF

Next year may see the return of instruction in Unangam Tunuu – the Native
language spoken by the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands – in the
Unalaska City School District.

That's the hope of Katherine McGlashan, an Unangan/Aleut herself, and an active
group of Unalaska residents, including educators, former teachers, parents, the
Museum of the Aleutians and Ounalashka Corp., the representative Alaska Native
corporation.

"We as indigenous people would like the opportunity to be able to pass on
traditions, values and the Unangan culture and language," wrote McGlashan in a
September letter to Superintendent John Conwell.

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