Student Needs
Students within the surrounding region of Fort Defiance and across the Navajo Nation are among the fifth generation of those elders who were apart of the Long Walk. Back then, language and culture was still very much intact. Today, you will rarely see a child walk into the classroom as a fluent Dine speaker. English has become the predominant and language everywhere. In rural areas far from the modernizations of technology you will find speakers, but again this is rare. For this purpose, as Dine educators and advocates, we have taken on the responsibility to bring language and culture back into the homes of our children. Through this, we hope that they will once again find self-identity, communicate with and understand their parents/grandparents, and accept the responsibility that is bestowed upon them; to be a carrier of the language and culture. With this task they will take on the greater task of being a new generation of citizens.
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