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The book will benefit scholars as well as the Native community. The inclusion of example sentences greatly increases its usefulness, and the accompanying DVD will help learners of the language as well as scholars. Noel Rude, linguist, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Heritage University's mission for excellent education is significantly advanced through the publication of this dictionary. Professors Beavert and Hargus's scholarly work creates a quantum leap in resources on Native languages and culture in the Northwest. Yet it also makes highly accessible to any interested reader a visual, auditory, and linguistic experience of Yakama culture. Kathleen Ross, Ph.D., President, Heritage University

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Virginia Beavert , M.Ed., a member of the Yakama Nation and native speaker of Sahaptin, is a 2006 recipient of the Washington Governor's Heritage Award; 2007 Central Washington University Alumna of the Year; 2008 recipient of the Ken Hale prize of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; and 2008 recipient of a Distinguished Service Award, University of Oregon. She has been a professor, director of the Sahaptin Language Program, and scholar-in-residence at Heritage University since 1991. Sharon Hargus is a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington.

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