Passionate believers in Native heritage prod legislators to recognize languages (fwd link)

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Passionate believers in Native heritage prod legislators to recognize
languages

Dermot Cole  April 21, 2014

JUNEAU -- After 15 hours in the state Capitol, a determined group of Alaska
Natives won a legislative victory when a bill recognizing their languages
and heritage won final approval by the Alaska Legislature.

The Alaska House of Representatives approved the language bill 38-0 last
week, but it had been bottled up in the Senate until 3 a.m. Monday. The
measure identifies a host of Native languages as official, though the bill
does not require the state to print ballots or take any other official
action in the varied aboriginal tongues of Alaska.

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http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140421/passionate-believers-native-heritage-prod-legislators-recognize-languages
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