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The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America, Volume 1: Linguistic, Ethnic, and Economic Revival
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“The 7,000-square-foot building on the Fort Belknap College campus is dedicated to preserving the heritage and native languages of the reservation’s Assiniboine and Gros Ventre peoples (Ogden, 2005).” (p.35)

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2007

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10

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2010

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USA

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48.4824,-108.7639

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Montana

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2010

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48.4824,-108.7639

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Fort Belknap Reservation in north-central Montana

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10

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1,000

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"No fully fluent speakers (Golla 2007)."

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2015

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"North central Montana, Fort Belknap reservation, Milk river."

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"North central Montana, Fort Belknap reservation, Milk river."

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"Shifted to English [eng]."

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~1,000

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Last known traditional speaker passed away in 1981.

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2007

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The language was intensively documented in a University of Colorado project in the 1970s, and a full dictionary was prepared, although not published. Courses in Gros Ventre are taught at Fort Belknap Community College in Harlen, Montana.

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~1,000

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The last traditional speaker died in 1981. Fewer than 10 elderly first-language speakers remain, none of them fully fluent.

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2008

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10

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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  5. North America
    Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
  6. Endangered Languages of the United States
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  8. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition
    Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
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