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First Americans

jwirr

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1. I wish them success. There are so few Native languages left and even the ones that are often have

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2015, 04:46 PM

Feb 2015

lost a lot of their words. That is true for the tribe our family belongs to up here. Are you involved in helping with this? I sometimes went out to the rez at Macy to work with the school. Great people.

This may seem like a bad idea but several tribes I have worked with talked about working with Lutheran Translators (modern ones) who have been instrumental in translations of the Bible into tribal languages in other countries. I am not suggesting they be asked to translate the Bible into the Omaha language but they are experts at cataloging and helping to save these other languages.

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I wish them success. There are so few Native languages left and even the ones that are often have jwirr Feb 2015 #1