Teaching Oregon Native Langauges NATURE MATTERS

Teaching Oregon Native Langauges NATURE MATTERSIn a world where over half of the remaining 6000 languages will most likely disappear by the end of the century, attention has finally begun to focus on the struggles of indigenous people to save their languages. Lack of knowledge concerning the vast linguistic diversity of Oregon's languages has been a major obstacle to language revitalization in this state. Native peoples were subjected to disease, displacement, and forced linguistic assimilation,

ink wells and supplies

and blunderbusses

These are beautiful reproductions

Zip cotton fleece hoodie with tree embroidery and Lewis and Clark National Historical Park name

The uses of plants — for food

Captains Lewis and Clark encountered many new things on their famous journey

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the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank—not only on the map but in our knowledge

over the arduous Bitterroot Mountains on the ancient Lolo Trail

including the western Cascades -- from tide pools to rain forests and meadows

whose land and heritage are under assault

possessing a keen eye for detail and a knack for skin-dressing