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Yellow Bird: Keeping language alive
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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2002 "Indian people throughout the nation are losing their languages at an alarming rate. This means the culture of the 540-plus tribes may be lost forever In Indian country, some say this is well and good. We should all speak one common language. That will build stronger relationships, they say. Dr. Douglas Parks, an anthropologist at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., disagrees. (As do most Native people, I think.) With Parks' help, the Sahnish (Arikara) and Lakota Sioux languages are being studied and documented for preservation at the American Indian Research Institute, which Parks founded. . ." Get the Story:
COLUMNIST DORREEN YELLOW BIRD: Keeping the flame of a language alive (The Grand Forks Herald 6/11)
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