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Our vision is that we want to, this program is to protect, perpetuate and preserve the natural resources that are important to the Nez Perce people. We do have 16 people, counting myself 17 people on staff with a circle of elders. They act as consultants for history, name places, along with the language. We do have a tribal archaeologist and he has a field archaeologist and three technicians and one crew leader. The ethnographer, we have one person working under the ethnographer doing the history part of the Nez Perce and we do have the Hanford cultural people, there is a staff of four. The Hanford Cultural coordinator has two cultural specialists and a Hanford monitor. Most of their work is done over in the Richland area where the clean up area is of the Hanford. Then we do have the language program headed by a language team leader, two coordinators and about three teachers teaching the Nez Perce language program to the adults, young adults, high school as well as the elementary students; also the tribal employees, we are teaching them the language.

Title:
Vera Sonneck interview
Date Created:
2002-02
Description:
Director of the Cultural Resource Program, Interviewed by Josiah Pinkham
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Preferred Citation:
"Vera Sonneck interview", Nimíipuu L3, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL)
Reference Link:
https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/nimiipuu-l3/items/nimiipuu-l3-008.html
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