{"id":11,"date":"2010-01-22T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philbu.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/22\/us-congress-increases-funding-for-native-american-language-programs"},"modified":"2016-12-07T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T10:09:52","slug":"us-congress-increases-funding-for-native-american-language-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/us-congress-increases-funding-for-native-american-language-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Increases Funding for Native American Language Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/news\/united-states\/congress-increases-funding-native-american-language-programs\">Cultural Survival<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/news\/united-states\/congress-increases-funding-native-american-language-programs\"> News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Date: 01\/14\/2010<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Native language advocates convened on Capitol Hill this past May, asking Congress to approve a minimum of $10 million in additional federal support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/publications\/cultural-survival-quarterly\/312-summer-2007-rescuing-critically-endangered-native-amer-1\">Esther Martinez Act<\/a>, which funds Native American language immersion schools, master-apprentice programs, and other revitalization projects. Native language advocates have made the $10 million request in earnest since 2007, and the new administration heard the call. In May during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/current-projects\/%5Bfield_program-raw%5D\/national-native-language-revitalization-summit-0\">Cultural Survival and National Alliance to Save Native Languages summit<\/a>, Congressional appropriators welcomed the language revitalization funding request from Code talkers, fluent speakers, and novice learners alike in nearly three dozen meetings with key members of Congress and their staffers. A $12 million increase for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=h109-4766\">Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act of 2006<\/a> was signed by President Obama on December 16, 2009 as part of the omnibus fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill (<a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c111:7:.\/temp\/%7Ec111soK5wC\">HR 3288<\/a>, which included <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/F?c111:4:.\/temp\/%7Ec111Z7Muc3:e275654:\">HR 3293<\/a>). The $12 million in increased funds for Native languages will be administered in a competitive grants program by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/programs\/ana\/\">Administration for Native Americans<\/a> within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Cultural Survival News: Date: 01\/14\/2010 Hundreds of Native language advocates convened on Capitol Hill this past May, asking Congress to approve a minimum of $10 million in additional federal support for the Esther Martinez Act, which funds Native American language immersion schools, master-apprentice programs, and other revitalization projects. Native language advocates have made the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/us-congress-increases-funding-for-native-american-language-programs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Congress Increases Funding for Native American Language Programs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31,23,30],"tags":[156,167,168,166],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous","category-language","category-learning","category-usa","tag-indigenous","tag-language","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}