Tribal-language teaching struggles

Billings Gazette - 08.05.07

BOZEMAN - Verda King gets excited when she talks about teaching youths in a nearby public school how to speak the Cheyenne language from her office at the Dull Knife Community College.

"This class has done a marvelous job," King said of her 12 students. "We've translated nursery rhymes, like Humpty Dumpty. And it's been fun. We've learned Cheyenne songs, and I'm learning my own language."

She's teaching 12 students in an elementary school in Colstrip by satellite from a tribal college classroom on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana.

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