Open Letter to Secretary of Interior Jewell

[Wayne Leman]

Jon:

I wasn't aware of your article. Thank you for giving me a link to it. I'm 
reading it now. Yes, the U.S. government needs to do more. And tribes need 
to do more, and parents and grandparents. Of course, it can be difficult for 
primary caregivers given the negative experiences so many speakers of 
indigenous languages have had. But it will take everyone pulling together to 
save these languages. I am also sharing this message with Dr. Dick 
Littlebear on the Cheyenne reservation who is a strong proponent of 
immersion programs, as you know.

Wayne

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jon Allan Reyhner
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 1:05 PM
To: ilat at list.arizona.edu
Subject: RE: [ilat] Open Letter to Secretary of Interior Jewell

Wayne:

That is my conclusion too. I am wondering if you have seen/read my Heritage 
Language Journal article at 
http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/files/reyhner-hlj.pdf . The 
University of Okahoma Press should have out my new edited book, Teaching 
Indigenous Students, in the spring with a version of that article as the 
concluding chapter.

Jon Reyhner
Professor of Bilingual Multicultural Education
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/