{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/schatz-murkowski-more-than-2-million-in-new-federal-funding-to-revitalize-promote-native-languages", "Schatz, Murkowski: More than $2 Million in New Federal Funding to Revitalize, Promote Native Languages", "2023-10-17", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AK", "Lisa Murkowski", "M001153", "www.murkowski.senate.gov", "murkowski", "https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/press-releases?PageNum_rs=17", "scraper", "Today, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai\u2018i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, announced more than $2.2 million in new fiscal year 2023 grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education to implement the Native American Language Resource Center Act, legislation led by the Senators and enacted earlier this year.\n\n\u201cCulturally-based instruction is critical to promoting and revitalizing Native languages,\u201d said Chairman Schatz. \u201cThis funding will directly support educational institutions like the University of Hawai\u2018i in developing resources and fostering collaboration to promote the use of Native American languages across the country.\u201d\n\n\u201cNative languages are key to understanding our history, culture, families, and communities,\u201d said Vice Chairman Murkowski. \u201cI am pleased to welcome these awards to a consortium and other recipients, including Alaska language leaders, to create Native American Language Resource Centers. I was proud to co-lead the legislation creating this program with Chairman Schatz in order to promote the important work of Native language revitalization.\u201d\n\nThe new grants will support Native American language use, revitalization, and instruction to advance the goals of the Native American Languages Act of 1990, which recognized the inherent rights and freedoms of Native Americans to use their Indigenous languages. The full list of Native American Language Resource Center Act grant recipients includes:\n\nUniversity of Hawai\u2018i in partnership with University of Alaska Southeast and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University for a National Center;\n\nLittle Priest Tribal College for a Regional Center (Central);\n\nUniversity of Oregon for a Regional Center (Northwest); and\n\nUniversity of Arizona in partnership with Tohono O\u2019odham Community College, San Carlos Apache College, and Din\u00e9 College for a Regional Center (West).", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:43:12Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/schatz-murkowski-more-than-2-million-in-new-federal-funding-to-revitalize-promote-native-languages"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0951829608529806, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}