#native language revitalization

HHS Spending $4.2 Million To Preserve Native American Languages

August 26, 2015

President Obama watches Native American dancers on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. (AP Photo)

Health and Human Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced last week that the agency is spending $4.2 million in “funding awards” to “enhance native language revitalization efforts.”

Burwell also said the agency will provide $600,000 for the “Tribal Early Learning Initiative” and an…