Starting this fall, you can take Alaska Native language courses for free at UAS

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University of Alaska Southeast will offer some Alaska Native language classes for free, starting in the fall. The free classes are open to anyone, but students who select the free option won’t earn credits or receive a grade.

The main University of Alaska Southeast campus is located near Auke Bay in Juneau.

“We kept saying, Indigenous peoples did not choose to be in this situation. Our language was banished, it was prohibited, it was made illegal,” he said. “We were tortured and abused and all kinds of things to get us to stop speaking. So why should we have to pay to learn our own language?” But Twitchell says there has been a shift toward language revitalization over the last decade. When Outer Coast in Sitka offered a year of free Lingít courses during the pandemic, 600 people signed up.

 

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