Riding the waves: Navajo listeners, broadcasters use radio to preserve language (fwd link)

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Riding the waves: Navajo listeners, broadcasters use radio to preserve language

By Alysa Landry The Daily Times
Posted: 01/15/2011 10:49:36 PM MST

FARMINGTON — Highly publicized and expensive efforts to preserve and
revitalize the Navajo language are widespread on the sprawling,
27,000-square-mile reservation, yet one of the most ubiquitous modes
of preservation also is one of cheapest.

Anyone with a battery-powered radio can listen to any of a handful of
Navajo language stations that cover the reservation with sound waves.

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