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Kevin Abourezk: Woman travels far to learn Omaha language





"In June, Barbara Salvatore Klopping asked her husband if she could load up the New York couple's two daughters and two horses and move more than 1,100 miles west to live and study.

OK, he said.

Six weeks later, she hopped a 5:30 a.m. flight from Scranton, Pa., to Omaha, rented a car and arrived in Lincoln in time for the first day of Omaha Language I at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

"There was a lot of shifting and shuffling that had to be done so that I could be here," said Salvatore Klopping, a writer and business owner from Walton, N.Y. "I owe a great deal to my husband, who's been very supportive."

So what drives a woman to move her children and horses hundreds of miles from home to learn an endangered language?"

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Kevin Abourezk: Woman travels 1,100 miles to learn Omaha language (The Lincoln Journal Star 10/10)

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