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From http://www.reznetnews.org/article/school-immerses-kids-arapaho-language-33410

School Immerses Kids in Arapaho Language
By Martin Reed
May 14, 2009

The Northern Arapaho Tribe is facing a crisis because of a lack of its members learning how to speak the native language. But with the Northern Arapaho Language Immersion School opening last October near Arapahoe, the tribe hopes to turn the tide.

Laura Shakespeare, a tribal elder who helps at the school, said 243 of the tribe's roughly 8,000 members can speak the language.

"I never talk English to them," Shakespeare, 73, said about the children.

Read the full article at http://www.reznetnews.org/article/school-immerses-kids-arapaho-language-33410 .
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