06/13/2012
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"What we are seeing in the young children, what we are seeing in the results coming out of the school, measurements of academic success have been really extraordinarily impressive."
"When a Native person knows their language, they know their culture, they know who they are; it is part of their identity."
"To think that through these grants we are achieving outcomes like we are seeing Ms. Hummingbird articulate here, it is not just, again, about keeping a language alive; it is a culture, it is an identi..."
"We know what it is means to lose languages at a rapid pace."