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by Cameron Pugh
Apr 16, 2024
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More American students are learning Indigenous languages in public schools
During the 2022-2023 school year in Oklahoma, 3,314 students from elementary to high school took part in an Indigenous-language program, a threefold increase from two years prior.
Oklahoma schools, which enroll at least 158,000 Native American students, have taught tribal languages since 2014 – when the right to take Indigenous language for high school credit was made a state law. The Cherokee and Chocataw languages have the highest participation rates and are offered most often.
In June 2021, the Department of the Interior began acknowledging the United States’ role in
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