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Schatz leads Indian Affairs Committee passage of bipartisan bills to support Native languages
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Senate Indian Affairs Committee Passes Native Language Bills
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WASHINGTON â Native American leaders and advocates testified on May 26 that COVID-19 has had a âdevastating effectâ on fluent language speakers.
During a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Michelle Sauve, acting commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, was one of several who addressed COVID-19âs impact on Native languages.
âCOVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the elderly population, who are the keys to cultural continuity,â she said. âElders are often the only first-language speakers and sometimes the only speakers for many Native languages. For example, the Kiowa Tribe in Oklahoma recently lost two of the tribeâs five fluent elder speaker mentors to COVID-19. Prior to the pandemic, there were only 20 fluent Kiowa speakers out of a population of 12,000.â
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Sens. Introduce Bill To Support Native American Languages
Law360 (April 30, 2021, 6:54 PM EDT) Two U.S. senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that proposes to reauthorize the three-decades-old Native American Languages Act and help preserve vanishing native languages by seeking input from tribal members on how to coordinate federal programs designed to protect indigenous identities.
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the committee s vice chairman, said Thursday that the Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2021 is named in honor of Cherokee linguist and Vietnam veteran Durbin Feeling, who died on Aug. 19.
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The chair and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Thursday introduced a piece of legislation meant to help with Native American language preservation efforts, named for late Cherokee linguist Durbin Feeling.
“Congress made a commitment to promote and protect the rights of Native Americans to use their languages over three decades ago when it enacted the Native American Languages Act of 1990,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the committee s chair, in a statement. “The Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act will ensure we are living up to that commitment. Our bill will make the federal government more accountable by setting clear goals and asking for direct input from Native communities about how federal resources can be more effectively used to support and revitalize Native languages.”
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