Native American Tribe Races to Preserve Endangered Language (fwd link)

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Native American Tribe Races to Preserve Endangered Language

New America Media, News Report, Jessica Cheung, Posted: Jul 18, 2012
US

Convinced that discarding their language would be tantamount to
discarding their identity, members of one Indian tribe recently
donated $1 million to California State University (CSU), Fresno, in an
effort to save their language from extinction.

The funds, which leaders of the Chukchansi tribe hope will allow
linguists at the CSU to compile a dictionary and assemble grammar
texts over the next five years, generated from the tribe-owned casino
nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

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