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The Continuum of Literacy in American Indian Communities.

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Zepeda, Ofelia – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995

Describes the O'odham language and oral tradition of the Tohono O'odham Indians of southern Arizona, relating it to the development of O'odham children's English literacy. Oral tradition and school literacy constitute opposite ends of a literacy continuum, in which English literacy is often isolated from and in conflict with O'odham literacy. (10…

Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingual Education