{"id":1815,"date":"2015-05-18T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2015-05-18T11:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:17:55","slug":"nanwalek-school-contributes-to-retention-of-ancestral-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/05\/18\/nanwalek-school-contributes-to-retention-of-ancestral-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanwalek School Contributes to Retention of Ancestral Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NAnwalek<\/a>Good morning! Today is Wednesday, May 13, 2015! Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.\u201d \u2026. A typical school morning announcement? Yes! Until\u2026. \u201cCamai uciitilat, camai uciiniit. Ernerpak nupugpet Ipitaqa aniuq.\u201d
\nNestled at the foot of beautiful mountains and along the shores of Cook Inlet, Nanwalek, or \u201ca place with a lagoon,\u201d is home to approximately 250 residents who are from the Sug\u2019piaq culture. The language of the Sug\u2019piat is a dying language, with only about 20 fluent residents. They are the elders, who often do not live with children who are developing language skills.
\nIt is hard for most people to imagine their language disappearing off the face of this earth. What would that be like? The exponential effects are many, for language affects interactions, culture, and history. Most would make every effort to save the language \u2013 or risk losing all traditions. In Nanwalek, the school has been key in the effort to save the Sugt\u2019stun language.
\n\"nanwalek<\/a>Alongside other schools, Nanwalek is focused on academic standards to help students from this isolated K-12 multi-graded school have as many options as possible when they graduate. As importantly, the Alaska Cultural Standards are essential to daily life at Nanwalek School. These provide another set of standards based on traditional and ancestral beliefs that are about survival of a Native world view, and in Nanwalek this is a way of knowing and being to preserve Sug\u2019piaq values and history through bilingual education.
\nLinks<\/strong>
\nSchool website<\/a>
\nConnect with Nanwalek on Facebook<\/a>
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Good morning! Today is Wednesday, May 13, 2015! Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.\u201d \u2026. A typical school morning announcement? Yes! Until\u2026. \u201cCamai uciitilat, camai uciiniit. Ernerpak nupugpet Ipitaqa … Continue reading “Nanwalek School Contributes to Retention of Ancestral Language”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[611,627,701,997],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-stories","tag-kpbsd","tag-language","tag-nanwalek","tag-sugpiaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}