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and ttainten; ni . uts carried S includkt (theSo,,,;; st countries’ ' li on mis change fX 111 a W: 1 ocean. 1(1 their ownfe ' Vei ghtlessn eE s y s tem, and* fV designed u le d a "veloe Oewupfora); help with 111 port an tlv y for the n oded cosmon etnam and Cd Soviet Ini How much for that... Photo by Pamela Ritnoldi idian heritage slowly vanishing Arapaho saving their language i Max Tucker, right, a senior agronomy major, gives away puppies in front of Rudder Tower Friday. Many people use t. Louis Hcrthe area to give away pets they can’t keep. Rich Baxter, a orked at J*t Harbor, Mi won major j! ral Cancer It— d in 1970 tf'. ciences. ras born in Q has been a l ie has taughlr rvard Univeir SS been engii United Press International ■search since CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Pius Moss inrencounters a sobering irony — ring on anafchan school children making fun of — howyoi °w students trying to speak their fending y<m iv e language, waders," he -hi the Wind River Reservation in j mountains and rolling hills of icerraf has ^t-ccntral Wyoming, Moss — a ney FarberC.y ear '°ld rancher who teaches 21 federal‘P®! 10 at the St. Stephen’s Mission iters in the i 100 ^ near Riverton — is one of se trying to save his tribe’s lan- ge from extinction, n one respect, a language is like Organism whose survival is en tered. Anthropologists estimate tup to 300 North American Indi languages existed on the conti- /\y ltat one H me - f n 1902, however, 1 15uist Wallace Chafe guessed there 1 re 200 remaining, with the num- ' still declining. sidential pkifoss estimates that only about 30 L5,000intodicent of the 3,400 Northern Ara- y for itself ro on the reservation still speak ne in climnir language fluently, and most of ound arose are over 35. As a result, many uss said, paho fear their language will die major scienanother generation or two. accomplistdready, Moss said, most of the istical and Idren entering grade school think lopmentviheir tribal tongue as a second lan- ble amountnge. Many fail to take it seriously, m will be yThey make fun of one another ss.” en they’re speaking it,”- Moss ex- ; dendritic fined. “I give them worksheets > made di/efl I’ll find them in the yard, you Its cost is — bits of them crumpled up ; conventf-e and there.” 1 polishingPtoce last year, Moss and other ir more eiif' c hers on the reservation have ingot or an ® using a 16-character Arapaho habet developed by University of can conveitissachusetts anthropology profes- s energy Zdenek Salzmann. nto electricifl 1 ®)' hope use of the alphabet will derate the efifort to restore the guage and that someday, as in the e of the Navajo tribe, the number fluent speakers will begin to in- iase rather than decline. The alphabet is about as perfect iperson could want it,” Moss said, s better than what we tried to ne up with ourselves. The lady that helps me write it, i says words just the way they’re )posed to be said, according to the junior chemical engineering major, took one of the puppies home. New flu outbreak United Press International ATLANTA — After a 35-year abs ence from the United States, De ngue fever, a disease with symptoms similar to the flu, seems to be spread ing in an area of the Texas-Mexico border, federal health officials say. The disease, carried by mos quitos, is sometimes called “break- bone fever” because its symptoms include intense muscle, head and joint aching. Though the disease is seldom fatal, it leaves its victims severely ill for up to a week and is characterized by explosive outbreaks. The first naturally-occurring case of dengue fever in the United States since 1945 was reported in a Brown sville, Tex., girl last month by the Center for Disease Control. The Atlanta-based federal health agency said Friday six persons with histories of dengue-like symptoms had been reported by household sur veys made by health officials in two Brownsville neighborhoods. Of the six, five lived in the same neighborhood where the original case occurred. Results are pending from tests conducted on blood specimens taken from 271 people in an effort to deter mine the extent of dengue infection, the CDC said. Historically, the illness has been prevalent in many South American and Caribbean countries, but has been moving steadily northward through Mexico toward the Texas border. 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The letter “X” is for the Klike sound of Arapaho, which is much rougher than the English “K” sound. The numeral 3, along with the letters S, X, and H, are for the fricatives — sounds formed by forcing air through a narrow slit somewhere in the mouth, as in the “th” sound. “The elders aren’t really accepting it,” Moss said of the Salzmann sys tem. “Their argument is that the lan guage was itever meant to be written and should be taught in the home. But the younger people, they don’t know it. My argument is ‘How are we going to preserve it? “After a few more years, say, 50 years, most of us that know it will be gone. So no one will know anything about it unless it’s recorded.” William C’Hair Jr., 36, learned Arapaho from his grandparents and now teaches it at the Wyoming Indi an High School near the reservation community of Ethete. He said a year of Arapaho is required, but that is not enough time. “In order for someone to learn a foreign language, it takes 900 to 1,300 contact hours,” C’Hair said. “They’re only getting about 30 or 40 contact hours a semester.” Moss said Salzmann hopes to com plete, in two years, the first Arapaho dictionary. “I imagine other tribes have gone into that area, like the Mfjijupai and ilie Navajo,” Moss said. ‘They hkVe something to go by. In fact, my son took a course in Navajo (at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.).” The whole effort is a sort of race against time. C’Hair said it was still to early to determine how effective the new alphabet is. “This is the first year we’ve been using the present approach,” he said. “Only time will tell.” COUPON! 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