Alaska Native Languages & Studies degree comes to UAS (fwd link)

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Alaska Native Languages & Studies degree comes to UAS

Posted: August 23, 2012 - 12:00am
By XH'UNEI LANCE A. TWITCHELL
FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE

Dennis Demmert and Walter Soboleff come to mind when I think about the
field of Alaska Native Studies, and Richard and Nora Dauenhauer when I
think about Alaska Native Languages. Now there are certainly more than
those four, but that is where my mind is today: in a state of
gratitude towards the ones who paved the road for those of us who are
teaching indigenous ways of knowing today. Several days ago a new
degree program was launched at the University of Alaska Southeast:
Alaska Native Languages & Studies.

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