Tribes Use Camps to Speak on Preserving Language

Jorigine Bender leads Hualapai and Yavapai children in a traditional sunrise prayer chant during summer camp at Hualapai Mountain County Park near Kingman, Ariz. on July 16.The eroding fluency and the potential extinction of indigenous languages have prompted leaders of many tribes to develop immersion courses.

—Dennis Wagner /The Arizona Republic/AP
By The Associated Press
Phoenix

Several dozen children stand atop a bluff in Hualapai Mountain Park to face the morning sun as it peeks...

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