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The report examines the extent to which language barriers impact access to essential government services and healthcare for individuals with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). The report also assesses how federal agencies and recipients of federal funding provide language access, where gaps remain, and best practices for strengthening interpretation and translation services.
- Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
This report updates the findings from Volume I with additional details. It also includes eight new recommendations, including the revitalization of Native American languages.
- Author: Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, Bryan Newland
An investigative report on Indian Boarding Schools, whihc shows for the first time that between 1819 and 1969, the United States operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states (or then-territories), including 21 schools in Alaska and 7 schools in Hawaii. The report presents an opportunity to reorient our Federal policies to support the revitalization of Tribal languages and
cultural practices. This reorientation of Federal policy is necessary to counteract nearly two centuries of Federal policies aimed at the destruction of Native American languages and cultures.
- Author: Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, Bryan Newland
The report follows the Commission’s comprehensive study of programs, grants, and supports available to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians from birth through age 24 and includes recommendations about how this overall system could be strengthened, improved, and where needed, transformed to better help Native children and youth thrive, including in areas of education and Native language learning.
- Author: Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children
The Native American Language Resource Center Act established the Native American Language Resource Center program to improve the capacity to teach and learn Native American languages, and further the goals of NALA.
The Native American Langauges Act (NALA) set forth U.S. policy as it pertains to Native American language preservation, protection, and promotion.