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Woman teaches Commanche
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AUGUST 28, 2000 In an effort to keep her language from dying out, Geneva Navarro teaches the Commanche language to her grandchildren and 35 other students in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Less than 2 percent of 10,000 members of the Comanche tribe in Oklahoma speak the language fluently, according to Barbara Goodin, who helped start the Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee in 1993. Get the Story:
Comanche Language Kept Alive (The Albuquerque Journal 8/28)
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