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Remo (Rheno) is an extinct indigenous language once spoken along the Môa River of Amazonas, Peru, one of several Panoan languages to go by that name. It was similar to Amawaka . References
Over a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).
AIHEC provides leadership and influences public policy on American Indian and Alaska Native higher education issues through advocacy, research, and programmatic initiatives; promotes and strengthens Indigenous languages, cultures, communities, lands, and tribal nations; and through its unique position, serves member institutions and emerging TCUs.
California, among other states, also has many public schools that have immersion programs, most commonly Spanish–English immersion but also including other languages. Immersion programs include native speakers of both languages and include instruction in both languages, with primary (grade) schools typically having 90% instruction in the ...
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The director of the Native Language Program for AAIA, Tammy Decoteau, explained that the project aimed to enable "an entire generation of young people" to hear Dakotah being used. [25] The program has also created a K-2 Dakotah language curriculum that includes books, CDs, games, and other materials for its implementation. [26]
The Native American Languages Act of 1990 (NALA) is a US statute that gives historical importance as repudiating past policies of eradicating indigenous languages of the Americas [clarification needed] by declaring as policy that Native Americans were entitled to use their own languages. The fundamental basis of the policy's declaration was ...
Native American parents demanded changes to this and related schools, seeking curriculum that reflected their own cultures, language study in their languages, and other changes. Following federal legislation passed in the early 1970s, including the Indian Self-Determination and Education Act of 1975, many tribes took over management of schools ...