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Check out these resources to learn about how Head Start American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) program services can help preserve, revitalize, restore, or maintain a child’s home language or heritage language.
Also check out our American Indian/Alaska Native AIAN resources.
This Program Instruction clarifies the Office of Head Start support for teaching tribal languages to children in American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start programs.
This Office of Head Start reports information on efforts to revitalize tribal languages. The report affirms the value of maintaining tribes' cultural and linguistic heritage.
Making It Work is a resource that can help American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) early education staff meet school readiness goals. Learn how to use it while teaching traditional cultural skills, values, beliefs, and lifeways.
Tribal Consultation reports reflect comments and recommendations raised by Tribal leaders and their representatives; comments and responses from OHS; and areas identified at the Tribal Consultations as requiring follow up by OHS.
Find out how this Standards in Action vignette addresses the requirements for tribal language preservation and revitalization.
Use these materials to support program leaders and early childhood staff working with children ages birth to 5 in American Indian and Alaska Native early learning settings to implement the Making It Work process.
In this video, a volunteer at the Salina Early Learning Academy in Salina, OK shares how she helps teach children the Cherokee language and why it's so important.
Watch children from the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe Early Head Start Program experience the S'Klallum culture by singing in the tribal language and drumming.
See older toddlers from the Cook Inlet Early Head Start Program take turns trying out a traditional native game, the Alaskan High Kick.
These videos demonstrate cultural practices in tribal early learning settings that support children's development in all Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) domains.
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