MN School Helps Revival of Native American Languages (fwd link)

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MN School Helps Revival of Native American Languages
Public News Service - MN
<http://www.publicnewsservice.org/state-minnesota/MN>


October 1, 2014

MINNEAPOLIS - As the number of speakers fluent in Native American languages
continues to fade, a Minnesota school like few others in this nation is
helping to keep those languages alive.

The Bdote Learning Center in Minneapolis is a year-round charter school
where the students are immersed in either Dakota or Ojibwe. Interim
Director Mike Huerth said it's an incredibly important time for both.

"My sons live on a reservation that has lost its language," he said. "There
are no more speakers alive in that tribe - and it's a very sad thing,
because once a language dies, it doesn't come back."

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