Article: Browning, Mont.-Area Immersion Programs Ensure Indian Cultural Survival.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Jun. 23--BROWNING, Mont.--Stepping into the Blackfeet Indian Reservation's language immersion schools is like stepping back into time.

Here, as with their ancestors, Blackfeet boys and girls from beginners not more than 2 through sixth grade are encouraged to think and speak in their native tongue. Here English is meant to be a student's secondary language.

Asked what he likes best about the program, Sam DeRoche says it is simple. "I can talk with my grandparents now. Before I couldn't understand them."

"People look up to us because we can speak Indian," adds fellow student Kristy Calf Robe.

"They're proud of it," says instructor ...

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