Apache speakers hang on (fwd link)

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Apache speakers hang on
 	
By Mark Herz
Larson Newspapers
USA

For Vincent Randall, the Apache culture director at the Yavapai-Apache
Nation near Camp Verde, being a fish out of water can be a good thing.

Especially if the water is English and the fish is one of the
“Dilzhé’e,” or “Hunters,” the native name for the subdivision of the
Apache people that live at the Nation.

Randall, 66, is one of the few native speakers of Western Apache on
the reservation where the younger generations swim almost exclusively
in a sea of English. But he thinks the Apache language can still be
saved at the Yavapai-Apache Nation.

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