Virginia Beavert keeping Sahaptin language alive
BY PAT MUIR
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

Linguist Virginia Beavert speaks five of the fourteen original dialects of the plateau tribes, including Yakama, and has been a long time teacher of the languages and active in their preservation. For her work with tribal languagues she’s has been awarded an honoray doctorate degree from the University of Washington

But Sahaptin, a general term for the language that includes the Yakama dialect, will live on….<for full story>