Language Immersion Camp
September 1999
The purpose of the Language Immersion Camp was to totally
immerse students in the
Deg Xinag Athabaskan language of Shageluk people.
Agnes and Allen John's Fish camp on the Innoko
Elders Marie Dementoff of McGrath, Katherine Hamilton --------James
Dementi, Shageluk Elder
of Shageluk, and Shageluk student Sonta Hamilton
The Language Immersion Camp was funded in part by the Language
Mentor Apprentice program through Tanana Chiefs Incorporated,
by Project Promise of the Iditarod Area School District and the
Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative. Several students from Lime Village
also attended the camp.
Lake grass drying in the wind.
Lake grass is used to make grass mats.
The kids had a lot of fun making root baskets, butchering
a fall moose, and tanning a caribou skin.
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