Changes were made and finally with available grant monies, additional fully developed and updated language materials will become a reality. Language teachers will be trained in the use of the materials through workshops. And as a cooperative effort with the Pawnee Public School system the completed project also will be put to use in the school system to reach and teach the Pawnee Nation youth. Oklahoma House Bill 1017 Reform Education provides Native Languages to be recognized as a foreign language and school students may earn credit accordingly. The dic tionary database has over 4,000 entries.
Cassette tapes are to be completed as a part of the learning tools.
A projected additional six months will be needed to complete most of the grant materials to final form. Dr. Parks, consulting Linguistic and grant sub-contractor of Indiana University's Indian Studies Pro gram, Who has done over 30 years of researching the language, will be completing the final manuscripts, software and tapes. Tire completion of the majority of the instructional materials will be met. However, this grant's costs highly exceeded the projected bud get monies. And the final publish ing cost objective of the completed manuscripts will have to be met through an alternative source.