Palin attacks Alaska Native languages

[Christopher Doty]

First, let me say I'm no Palin fan, but I can't find any evidence of
Palin being involved in the court case about fishing, as per this
website: http://www.narf.org/cases/statevnorton.html, nor hunting as
far as I can tell (as per, e.g., http://www.narf.org/cases/ahtna.htm).
 Doesn't mean she wasn't involved, of course, but still..

It also seems rather odd (although certainly possible) that Palin
would be opposed to Yup'ik language use, given that her husband's
grandmother is Yup'ik (http://gov.state.ak.us/bio_firstgent.html)...

Anyone have anything more substantial on the hunting/fishing issues

Chris

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:45, William J Poser <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I don't know about the other issues, but the language assistance
> part is certainly true given that the court case is well-documented
> and that Palin is indeed Governor of Alaska and therefore
> ultimately responsible for the state's position.
>
> Bill
>



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Christopher S. Doty
Grants and Technology Coordinator
Northwest Indian Language Institute

Graduate Student - Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon