Mike Carlson, 19, teaches preschool-age children Yurok words at the Klamath Family Head Start program. The Yurok tribal language revitalization program has developed curricula for all ages.
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Del Norte High School student Chuski Scott holds up Yurok language flash cards in a class taught by Barbara McQuillen.
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Archie Thompson, 93, is a Yurok tribal elder and one of the last remaining native speakers. "They didn't want Indian language spoken," Thompson said of the boarding school he attended as a young boy. "You couldn't do your own culture."
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Jim McQuillen, education director of the Yurok tribe, visits tribal elder Archie Thompson, 93. McQuillen, who oversees the program to revive the Yurok language, has learned a great deal from elders like Thompson.
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Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O'Rourke talks about his tribe's cultural history. O'Rourke is supportive of the tribe's efforts to teach its native language.
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Carole Lewis teaches Yurok to students at Eureka High School, which last fall became the fifth and largest school in Northern California to launch a Yurok-language program.
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Del Norte High students Kara Scott, left, Sasha Mitchell and Sativa Wilson listen as Barbara McQuillen teaches Yurok. At one time academics predicted that the Yurok language would soon be extinct. Thanks in part to classes like this one, at last count there were more than 300 basic Yurok speakers.
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The Klamath River flows into the Pacific Ocean. The Yurok people have lived along the banks of the Klamath for centuries.
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A light dusting of snow covers a traditional Yurok house in the Klamath River area of Northern California.
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Jim McQuillen stands inside a traditional Yurok house as he gives a tour around tribal areas along the Northern California coast.
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