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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 176
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 117-46
TO ESTABLISH A NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE RE-
SOURCE CENTER IN FURTHERANCE OF THE POLICY
SET FORTH IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE ACT
DECEMBER 2, 2021.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 989]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 989) to establish a Native American language resource center
in furtherance of the policy set forth in the Native American Lan-
guages Act, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment (in the nature of a substitute) and rec-
ommends that the bill (as amended) do pass.
PURPOSE
This bill is intended to provide federal support for the establish-
ment and operation of one or more Native American language re-
source centers in furtherance of the policies set forth in the Native
American Languages Act (NALA) of 1990.123
'Pub. L. 101-447 (1990); LEANNE HINTON, Federal Language Policy and Indigenous Lan-
guages in the United States, in THE GREEN BOOK OF LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN PRACTICE
39-44 (Leanne Hinton and Ken Hale eds., 2001 (summarizing the history of federal policy re-
garding the Indigenous languages of the United States).
2ROBERT D. ARNOLD, . . . To Help Assure the Survival and Continuing Vitality of Native
American Languages, THE GREEN BOOK OF LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN PRACTICE 45-48
(Leanne Hinton and Ken Hale eds., 2001) (providing a first-hand perspective on the passage of
NALA by a member of Senate staff).
3See, S. Rep. 101-371 101st Cong. 2nd Sess. (describing the need for a change in federal pol-
icy regarding Native American Languages). NALA addresses recommandations made in COMMIS-
SION ON LANGUAGE LEARNING OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, AMERICA'S LAN-
GUAGES: INVESTING IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY X (2017) (calling for tar-
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