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Article: Tribal immersion schools rescue language and culture: Tribal immersion schools rescue language and culture.(Features)(Learning)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 11, 2002
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Byline: Michelle Nijhuis Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Twenty years ago, Darrell Kipp moved back to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. He'd been away from his birthplace long enough to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam, earn two master's degrees, and establish a career as a technical writer.
He and a small group of Blackfeet friends longed to go home again, to reconnect with their culture and relearn the language they'd spoken as children. They were dismayed to find out that while they'd been away, the number of fluent speakers of Piegan, the Blackfeet language, had plummeted, and the remaining speakers were all more ...