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[Rrlapier at AOL.COM]

Please read the following booklet and look at Rule #1 -- Never Beg to Save  
Your Language.
 
_http://www.pieganinstitute.org/encouragementguidanceinsightslessons3-00.pdf
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(http://www.pieganinstitute.org/encouragementguidanceinsightslessons3-00.pdf) 
 
Ask people to help you and they do not want to help you -- move on. 
 
Rosalyn LaPier

Piegan Institute
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/15/2010 10:39:27 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM writes:

All:
 
For a community-level language committee, a goal is to get the local  
school board to support Apache language teaching in the schools here in  addition 
to the educational outreach we are attempting to get the older  generations 
to re-learn and make decisions to once again teach the younger  generation 
our language.  One issue is that due to administrative staff  changes 
(school supt, principals, etc), there has not been continuation in  these efforts 
by local language teachers at schools and the new administrators  (gathered 
from recent presentations they did to the Tribal Council) seem to  not 
exclude local language/culture teaching from the school curriculae.
 
In order to present this committee's recommendations to include these  
courses and to strengthen support of local language teachers in the school  
system, it was deemed that we need to convince these newer school  
administrators of the importance of providing this teachings for our children  in local 
schools who comprise over 90% enrollment of native children in  them.  We 
request names of books, articles, authors, etc. that you can  provide us that 
emphasize the reasons why and how native children benefit from  inclusion of 
their native language/cultural knowledge in school curriculae,  need 
examples of tribes/schools that are successful, etc.
 
Thanks for any info provided on this topic.
 
Bernadette A. SantaMaria
WM Apache Language  Committee

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