The Sauk language Kimachipena immersion school took another step toward realization last month, when Cultural Survival staff participated in training to help implement a $300,000 grant from the federal Administration for Native Americans. The grant, which Cultural Survival helped the Sac and Fox Nation submit, will support a master-apprentice program in which three teachers will learn the Sauk language from the last five elderly speakers. After three years of work, the teachers should be fluent enough to teach children in the immersion school, which is scheduled to open in 2012.

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Cultural Survival's Native Language Revitalization Campaign recently traveled to Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Washington, D.C., to promote its partners' and advisors’ work to revitalize critically endangered Native languages (those with small speaker populations ranging from 5 to 150) and to expand CS’ outreach in Indian Country.  Nearly 500 new language advocates have been added to the campaign’s network of partners in the past month. 
 

The Administration for Native Americans Language Preservation and Maintenance grants program has awarded Cultural Survival $80,000 annually for a three-year period to support master-apprentice speaker training at the Sauk Language Department of the Sac and Fox Nation in Stroud, Oklahoma.