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Title | 90-Year-Old Man Continues to Teach Yurok |
Body | From http://www.triplicate.com/20091106107418/News/Local-News/A-bridge-to-the-past A bridge to the past: At age 90 he still aids youths with native language by Matt Durkee November 6, 2009 Archie Thompson learned the Yurok language as a boy living on his grandmother's ranch. “She didn’t speak English, and I used to make fun of her all the time, but that’s how I learned. She spoke to me every day,” Thompson said. “I learned (Yurok) as I went along. She’d teach me as I went.” Many decades later, the 90-year-old Thompson is the elder Yurok who is passing on the language to a new generation. Twice a week, Thompson sits in on Yurok language classes for high-schoolers at Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods in Klamath, where he serves as a living resource, one of a handful of surviving fluent speakers. Read the full article at http://www.triplicate.com/20091106107418/News/Local-News/A-bridge-to-the-past |
Source | The Daily Triplicate, Crescent City, CA |
Inputdate | 2009-11-22 09:12:43 |
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Publishdate | 2009-11-23 00:00:00 |
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