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NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE SURVIVAL SCHOOLS: DR. MICHAEL E. KRAUSS
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Statement of Dr. Michael E. Krauss, Founding Director Alaska Native
Language
Center Dr. Lawrence D. Kaplan, Director Committee on Senate Indian
Affairs
May 15, 2003 Since its founding in 1972 by Michael Krauss, the Alaska
Native
Language Center has been committed to the study and documentation
of Alaska's
twenty Native languages and is also involved in efforts to revitalize
and
perpetuate them. It is an accepted fact of linguistic science that
every
language on earth has an intricate grammatical system, worthy of study
and analysis and which reveals relationships to other ...
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