Teaching Oregon Native Langauges NATURE MATTERS when Lewis left Pittsburgh to

when Lewis left Pittsburgh to join Clark farther down the Ohio River

made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase

Areas covered are the coastal region from shoreline to alpine

possessing a keen eye for detail and a knack for skin-dressing

Teaching Oregon Native Langauges NATURE MATTERS when Lewis left Pittsburgh toIn a world where over half of the remaining 6000 languages will most likely disappear by the end of the century, attention has finally begun to focus on the struggles of indigenous people to save their languages. Lack of knowledge concerning the vast linguistic diversity of Oregon's languages has been a major obstacle to language revitalization in this state. Native peoples were subjected to disease, displacement, and forced linguistic assimilation,