On May 26 the
Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing on Native American language teaching. The hearing, entitled
In Our Way: Expanding the Success of Native Language and Culture-Based Education, featured testimony from a number of experts, including Jana Harcharek, Director of Inupiaq Education for the North Slope Borough School District.
You can
view a web cast of the hearing from the Senate page. Harcharek's testimony starts just after minute 89:00.
Chairman Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) points out that only 175 of more than 300 Native American languages are still spoken today.
The only decent news report I've found so far is
here in CanadaViews.ca.
