Montana: Blackfeet Language Institute aims at integrating Blackfeet language into school curricula

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Glacier Reporter



Blackfeet Language Institute aims at integrating Blackfeet language
into school curricula



The Blackfeet Language Institute was held June 16-18 at the Blackfeet
Head Start Multipurpose Room in Browning. The Institute was sponsored
through Browning Public Schools' Blackfeet Native American Studies
Department, and its main purpose was to develop Blackfeet word
translations for classroom use.

Terminology in the areas of math, reading, music, technology and
science was developed. Among those topics, the hardest content areas
to develop were math and music because the Blackfeet language is
descriptive so the translations were a bit longer.



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