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| Title | Article: Universities Part of Effort to Revitalize Native Languages |
| Body | From http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_12701.shtml Universities Part of Effort to Revitalize Native Languages by Cynthia J. Drake July 8, 2009 Across the country, college students have an ever-increasing array of languages available for study, from Japanese to American Sign Language to Farsi. And in the past two decades, the United States’ own indigenous languages – Navajo, Ojibwe, Apache and hundreds of others – have taken up residence among their “foreign” language counterparts in some universities and tribal colleges. While nearly 80 universities and tribal colleges offer Native American studies majors, according to the College Board, just five colleges – Diné College, Idaho State University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia (the latter two in Canada) offer majors in Native American languages. Read the full article at http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_12701.shtml |
| Source | Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Inputdate | 2009-07-18 06:37:27 |
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