Nearly lost, Indian languages struggling to make comeback (fwd link)

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Published - Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Nearly lost, Indian languages struggling to make comeback
By Jason Stein | Lee Newspapers

Note: This is the third in a three-day series by the Wisconsin State Journal
about declining native languages, “Down to a whisper.”

HAYWARD, Wis — Paper in hand, the 7-year-old girl shuffles shyly to the head of
the classroom. She pauses and then delivers a routine report in a revolutionary
way — in the language of her ancestors.
“We went snowshoeing last week,” Shainah Peterson, also known as
Running-Bear-Woman, reads in Ojibwe.

Watching Shainah is a teacher who helped introduce Wisconsin to the idea of
educating American Indian children almost entirely in their traditional
languages.

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