Sealaska Heritage Institute Granted $455K for Language Revitalization (fwd link)

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Sealaska Heritage Institute Granted $455K for Language Revitalization
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September 16, 2013

To increase the number of fluent Tlingit speakers under 60 years old by 300
percent over three years, the Sealaska Heritage Institute has received a
federal grant to fund a Tlingit language Mentor-Apprentice program in
Southeast Alaska.

The $454,828 grant comes from the Administration of Native Americans for
Language Preservation and Maintenance and will establish the
mentor-apprentice program that will work toward perpetuating and
revitalizing the language.

“We now have teachers, we have language learners, and we have material, and
so this is absolutely a great event for us to be able to now have a formal
program,” SHI President Rosita Worl said in a release.
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