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NIEA broadcasts Bill Demmert's passing
from Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 11:32 am
 
For more information, please go to:
http://niea.org/media/broadcasts_detail_html.php?id=389

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Excerpt:

On January 19, 2010, Dr. William Demmert, Tlingit/Oglala Lakota passed onto the spirit world. NIEA is deeply saddened by the loss of one of our organization’s founders and the nation’s leading researcher on Native language immersion and cultural based education.

William G. Demmert, Jr., (Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1973) currently serves as a professor of education at Western Washington University. Professor Demmert is one of the original founders of the National Indian Education Association (the idea was conceived at the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars, Princeton University, in March 1970). As a member of the first Board of Directors he designed the current NIEA logo and pin on his way from a meeting in DC to Boston while attending Harvard University.

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