Assertion: linguist | /r/PartOf | indian tribes
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text: Participating in associations which, in the US and Canada, work to obtain from local and national governments a recognition of the importance of Indian languages (prosecuted and led to quasi-extinction during the XIXth century) and cultures, such as those of the Algonquian, Athabaskan, Haida, Na-Dene, Nootkan, Penutian, Salishan, Tlingit communities, to name just a few; Participating in funding the creation of schools and the appointment and payment of competent teachers; Participating in the training of linguists and ethnologists belonging to Indian tribes, in order to foster the publication of grammars and dictionaries, which should also be financially helped; Acting in order to introduce the knowledge of Indian cultures as one of the important topics in American and Canadian TV and radio programs.