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Keeping Our Language Alive

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  • Why did people think U.S. Secretary of State's William Seward's decision to buy Alaska was foolish?
    They thought it was worthless and only made of snow and ice.
  • What is different about Ikusek Nicolai's music class?
    She and her classmates sing songs in languages their ancestor's spoke.
  • What is Ikusek's ancestors' native language?
    Yup'ik
  • In what year was the Native American Languages Act passed?
    1990
  • In what language are students taught for kindergarten to third grade at Ayaprun Elitnaurvik?
    Yup'ik
  • When is it expected that the 20 Native Alaskan languages will become extinct?
    The end of the century
  • Name a punishment that happened to students who were caught speaking their Native languages?
    They were made to stand in corners or had their mouths washed out with soap.
  • How did the first people in North America arrive?
    They walked over on a land bridge which crossed the Bering Strait from modern-day Russia.
  • In the 1960s, the US created what type of instruction to include people who spoke more than one language?
    Bilingual
  • What state does Ikusek live?
    Alaska
  • How many languages were once spoken in Alaska?
    25
  • What was found in Alaska that changed people's minds about the US decision to purchase it from Russia?
    Gold
  • Name a state that has fewer people than Alaska.
    Vermont and Wyoming
  • Other than the language, name another thing children are taught at the Akaprun Elitnaurvik school?
    To sew mittens, to ice fish, or to hunt
  • What are Ikusek Nicolai fans made of?
    Feathers
  • What number state did Alaska become when it was accepted into the US?
    49
  • What does fluent mean?
    Able to speak a language easily and accurately
  • How many Alaskan languages are in danger of disappearing?
    20
  • According to Roy Mitchell, what is the best way to save a language?
    Teach the young people
  • What was a rule that the United States government had for the schools in Alaska?
    Native children were barred from speaking any languages other than English.
  • How many years ago did the first people arrive in North America?
    15,000 years ago
  • How does a language die?
    When the last fluent speaker dies, the language dies with that person
  • From what country did the first white settlers arrive?
    Russia
  • What did the United States government force Native Alaskans to give up?
    Their culture including their languages
  • What did the early Russians turn Alaska into?
    a colony of Russia
  • What year did Russia purchase Alaska?
    1867
  • What city does Ikusek live?
    Bethel
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