The Current Situation: |
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Funding will continue to be the issue for language initiatives now… and in the future. |
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Without immediate community-wide changes and additional language programming, the Ktunaxa Language will become extinct. Current Ktunaxa teaching programs will not achieve the objective of maintaining Ktunaxa as a spoken language. |
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Saving the Ktunaxa Language can be achieved through community action, personal commitment, and by implementing a set of possible and affordable new programs. |
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Focussed implementation of a strongly developed program, funding to ensure continuity and the commitment at the community and Nation level will reverse the declining use of the language. |
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This additional programming to save the language should be divided into band school, school district, Band and Tribal Council level programming with Immediate, 2-3 year, and 5 year goals that are all measurable. |