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INCLINED TO SPEAK IN NATIVE TONGUE.(City/Region)(A Yakama elder teaches UO students an American Indian language that only 200 people (soon to be more) can use)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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February 9, 2009
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Byline: Shelby Martin The Register-Guard
When his foreign language instructor says something, University of Oregon freshman Carson Viles knows it's important to pay attention.
"I might never get a chance to hear that phrase again," he said.
It's true. Viles is taking Yakama Sahaptin, one of a family of American Indian languages spoken along the Columbia River and offered for the first time this year at the UO. The class, taught by native speaker and Yakama elder Virginia Beavert, is not a typical foreign language class. There are no textbooks, no ...
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