Program about dying Indian languages recognized (fwd link)

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Friday, 16 January 2009 | News From Indian Country

Program about dying Indian languages recognized

Norman, Oklahoma (AP) 1-09

The state Education Department is honoring a group of Norman High School
students for their documentary about dying languages of American Indian tribes.

The program “When It’s Gone, It’s Gone” by 13 students in the school’s Native
America Club is also now being used in classrooms as a teaching tool.

The students interviewed tribal elders from American Indian tribes in Oklahoma
about their native languages and the effort to keep their languages and
cultures alive.

Most of the elders in the video are in their 80s and have witnessed their native
tongues dying out as younger generations are raised to speak English.

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