TO: All interested in Native American Education

From: Roy E. Howard, SIG Secretary

RE: NABE Language and Culture Retention and Development SpecialInterest Group

We held at meeting of the SIG at the NABE '94 meeting in Los Angeles.One of our stated goals for the '95 NABE conference was that theSIG would work to promote an Indian Education and Native Americancultures focus, including:
A strand for Language and Culture Retention issues.
The nomination of Evelyn Begay and others by name to be on theprogram committee and to be readers.
To organize a Native American Institute
To get a NABE telephone credit card
To promote response from our group to the Call for Papers
To encourage NABE to schedule Native American entertainment
To have a Native American theme for the cover
To schedule visits to schools with Native American programs
To encourage NABE and OBEMLA to not lump Native American languageswith the category "other".