Yakama Elder Keeps Her Native Language Alive (fwd link)

[Susan Penfield]

GO VIRGINIA! -- She is SO amazing!

S.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:33 PM, phil cash cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu>wrote:

> Yakama Elder Keeps Her Native Language Alive
>
> BY RACHAEL MCDONALD
> Eugene, OR  June 3, 2009 12:48 a.m.
> USA
>
> [media download available]
>
> Lots of people go back to school -- whether it’s to re-train after a
> lay-off or
> to finally get a degree after life events have delayed one’s education. But
> it’s not that often a person in their 80s pursues a doctorate.
>
> That’s what Virginia Beavert is doing at the University of Oregon. The
> Yakama
> elder is studying linguistics and teaching her native language Sahaptin. As
> part of KLCC’s special issues series, Rachael McDonald tells Beavert’s
> story.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://news.opb.org/article/5122-yakama-elder-keeps-her-native-language-alive/
>



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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
(Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.
E-mail: spenfiel at nsf.gov
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Department of English (Primary)
Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture,
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT),
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
The Southwest Center
University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona 85721
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