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We are past the point of crisis
Professors push for University of Alaska system to overhaul Indigenous language programs
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Apr 30, 2021
Stewart Huntington
ANCHORAGE Alaska is home to a rich tapestry of more than 20 Native languages, but some are fading and others are threatened.
Now a group of Native scholars is urging the University of Alaska System to adopt a major overhaul of its Indigenous language programs in a fight against time to preserve living cultural treasures.
“We are past the point of crisis,” said X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell, a citizen of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes and associate professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.