Nevada Proud: Students get a chance to learn native language in school (fwd link)

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Nevada Proud: Students get a chance to learn native language in school

Published: 10/16 5:51 pm

SPANISH SPRINGS, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) - Paiute elder Reynelda James
teaches her native language at Spanish Springs High School.

The students learn vocabulary, pronunciation and tribal customs.

"Some pick it up very quickly.  For others it's a little bit hard," James
said.

It's a language that even many native Paiutes do not speak fluently,
because for decades Paiute children growing up in northern Nevada were
required by the federal government to attend a boarding school in Carson
City where they learned English, not Paiute.

"They brought them to these schools to immerse them in a different culture.
They were not allowed to speak their native language once they got here,
said Sherry Rupert, executive director of the Nevada Indian Commission.

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