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| Title | Article: Back from the Brink: Learning the Yurok Language |
| Body | From http://www.triplicate.com/20101018110520/News/Local-News/Back-from-the-brink-Learning-the-Yurok-language Back from the brink: Learning the Yurok language Written by Kelley Atherton October 16, 2010 A class of 22 high school students is learning how to speak a language that nearly went extinct. It’s estimated there are about 10 fluent speakers of Yurok, the native language of the tribe. This is the first year the language is being taught at Del Norte High School. Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods teaches Yurok, as do high schools in Humboldt County. Tolowa 1 and 2 have been taught at DNHS for many years. Yurok 2 is in line to start next fall. After the passage of a recent state bill, tribes in California can test their members on their language proficiency and put them on the fast-track to be credentialed to teach that language. The school district has wanted to offer Yurok language classes at the high school, said Superintendent Jan Moorehouse, but there were no credentialed teachers who could speak Yurok. The world is losing many of its indigenous languages, she said. Offering this class to high-schoolers will help efforts to preserve the language, but also show students that they can “have success in both worlds” of school and their culture. Read the full article at http://www.triplicate.com/20101018110520/News/Local-News/Back-from-the-brink-Learning-the-Yurok-language |
| Source | The Daily Triplicate, Crescent City, CA |
| Inputdate | 2010-10-20 10:14:09 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-10-25 00:00:00 |
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