Alaska: School board faces Native language issue

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


The Dutch Harbor Fisherman



School board faces Native language issue



Next year may see the return of instruction in Unangam Tunuu - the
Native language spoken by the indigenous people of the Aleutian
Islands - in the Unalaska City School District. That's the hope of
Katherine McGlashan, an Unangan/Aleut herself, and an active group of
Unalaska residents, including educators, former teachers, parents, the
Museum of the Aleutians and Ounalashka Corp., the representative
Alaska Native corporation. "We as indigenous people would like the
opportunity to be able to pass on traditions, values and the Unangan
culture and language," wrote McGlashan in a September letter to
Superintendent John Conwell.



Full story:

http://www.thedutchharborfisherman.com/news/show/1049

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