Teaching Oregon Native Langauges NATURE MATTERS shows his unquestioning devotion to

shows his unquestioning devotion to his master

they camped among the friendly Nez Perces in modern west-central Idaho

Beginning with his botany studies at the University of Washington

made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase

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

Teaching Oregon Native Langauges NATURE MATTERS shows his unquestioning devotion 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,