Fort Lewis College is on a mission to revive Native and Indigenous languages, and it has received a $1.5 million Mellon grant to pursue that goal.
Students at FLC represent more than 180 Native American tribes and Alaska Native villages.
The grant will bolster the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies’ All Our Nations Language Revitalization Hub in a three-pronged project aiming to shape Native language curricula.
Sociology and human services professor Janine Fitzgerald said there...