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- Title
The native language is a gift: a Hualapai language autobiography.
- Authors
Watahomigie, Lucille J.
- Abstract
Lucille Jackson Watahomigie is a native speaker of Hualapai, a Yuman language with approximately 1,500 speakers, and a member of the Hualapai Tribe of northwestern Arizona. She is the founder of the nationally acclaimed Hualapai Bilingual/Bicultural Program and of the American Indian Language Development Institute, the first teacher-education program in American Indian linguistics and bilingual/bicultural curriculum development She currently directs Indian education programs and teaches Hualapai language at Peach Springs Elementary School, on the Hualapai reservation.
- Subjects
NATIVE language; HUALAPAI language; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; YUMAN languages; BILINGUALISM
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1998, Vol 1998, Issue 132, p5
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article