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Elders share language and culture

By Cara Brady - Vernon Morning Star
Published: March 14, 2012 6:00 AM
USA

The name, Nkm’aplqs isn’ma’ma’ya’tn klsqilxwtet Language and Cultural
Immersion School, means “a learning place towards and in the direction of
our indigenous Okanagan ways.”

The idea started in 2001 when Bill Cohen, one of the school organizers, was
doing a research project and saw how students who learned in their
indigenous languages in New Zealand and Hawaii, improved their academic
performance.

“The first reaction to the idea of an Okanagan immersion school was that
some people were very interested and some thought we were crazy,” he said.

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