[Lexicog] Fw: [NDNAIM] Sign the Petition to Help Revitalize Native American Languages

[Jimm GoodTracks]

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From: Pat Benabe 
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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:48 AM
Subject: Fw: [NDNAIM] Sign the Petition to Help Revitalize Native American Languages



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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:55 AM
Subject: [NDNAIM] Sign the Petition to Help Revitalize Native American Languages


From: Quanah Brightman qbrightman75 @ hotmail.com (take out spaces)



Sign the Petition to Help Revitalize Native American Languages

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-revitalize-native-american-languages

Your help is urgently needed to save and revitalize Native American 
languages. Among the more than 300 original languages once spoken in 
the U.S. only 155-175 are spoken today. Scholars estimate that only 
20 of these remaining indigenous languages are being widely 
transmitted to today's Native children. Fully 70 languages could 
vanish within the next 10 years without immediate and significant 
funding for tribal language programs.

The National Alliance to Save Native Languages, an intertribal 
leadership coalition says, 'Native languages are national treasures 
that have served this nation in time of war, with the legendary 
service of Native code talkers, and they remain vital part of Native 
American culture and identity today. Notably, Native students who 
are fluent in both English and their Native language perform 
substantially better academically, including on national assessment 
tests, than Native students who have not gone through such a program.'

United Native Americans Inc.
Fighting for Natives Since 1968.
Join us at

<http://www.myspace.com/unitednativeamericansinc>



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