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• Position: LANGUAGE - Arapaho language - Brief article

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Fifty years ago, teachers at the St. Stephens boarding school on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming would strike students with rulers if they spoke in the Arapaho language. Today, there are only about 200 Arapaho speakers still alive, and they're all over 55. To try and save their language, the Northern Arapaho, a tribe of 8,791, have opened a school at Wind River that will teach students in Arapaho. The Hinono' Eitiino' Oowu' (Arapaho Language Lodge) opened this fall with about 22 children from pre-kindergarten through first grade, and will eventually go through...