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Archive Home > 2005 > December > 10 > Children struggle to learn native tongues

Children struggle to learn native tongues

By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
December 10, 2005

WARM SPRINGS - As her five young pupils fingered the Cheerios spread across their bingo sheets, Suzie Slockish turned over a card, revealing a smiling pink pig.

"Kushu!" Slockish, 60, announced to her 4- and 5-year-old students, saying the word for pig in the Warm Springs language of....

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