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Show . I Navajo language instructor; and Daphne Dalley, coordinator of conferences and workshops. Final plans for the Navajo Language and Culture Workshop which begins today at SUSC are being1 made by Gary Tom, director of th eMulti-Cultural Center; Irene B. Jones, Navajo Language & Cultural Workshop Today & Friday educationally disadvantaged disad-vantaged in his position with the State Board of Education. A book he has written about the Mexican-American Mexican-American people will be published in the near future. A Navajo Medicine Man, a mother of 12 trained in Navajo handicrafts, a specialist in bilingual education from the Utah State Board of Education and a linguist from Brigham Young University will be quest instructors for a Navajo Language and Cultural Workshop today and Friday at Southern Utah State College. Sponsored by the SUSC Multi-Cultural Center and coordinated by Irene B. Jones, Navajo language instructor at SUSC, the two-day two-day workshop began with registration at 9 a.m. today. All workshop sessions will be held in the Old Administration Ad-ministration Building, room 204, and are free to the public. "All persons interested in the Navajo people, whether they are students, foster parents, community members or those involved ' in the helping professions, are invited to attend any or all of the workshop sessions," Mrs. Jones siad. "Members of the SUSC community are especially encouraged to attend the workshop," notes Gary Tom, director of Indian education. "American Indians In-dians make up the prominent minority at SUSC. There were close to 70 of these students on campus last year, and over 90 percent per-cent of them were Navajo." Native food "taste breaks" and traditional entertainment will be held along with workshop sessions, with the foods prepared by quest consultant con-sultant Mary Rose Nez. "Mrs. Nez was raised traditionally, the youngest daughter of a Medicine Man," Mrs. Jones explains. "She has raised a dozen children, and is skilled in preparing many native foods, and will demonstrate her skills in weaving, beading and silversmithing during the workshop." Following registration today at 9:30 a.m., a session was held On Navajo history. Following a 15-minute foods and entertainment break, Mrs. Nez discussed contemporary con-temporary Navajo life at 10:45 a.m. Bruce Williams, a Medicine Man from Tuba City, Ariz, will talk about religion and ethnobotany at 1 p.m. today. Williams was trained by his grandfather and uncle to conduct several important ceremonies including in-cluding the Ye'ii Bicheii, Squaw Dance (War Dance), Blessingway Ceremony and Five-Day Sing. Dr. Paul Platero will . discuss the Navajo language Friday beginning at 9 a.m. The orthography, phonology, syntax and grammar of the language will be covered by the BYU linguist in a three-hour session which will include a mid-morning native foods and entertainment break. Dr. Platero holds a doctor of linguistics degree from MIT and is past editor of "The Navajo Language Review," a publication directed at Navajo language research. He has written a Navajo language text for use in colleges and universities which is scheduled for publication this summer. The agenda Friday afternoon af-ternoon has been developed especially for educators, Mrs. Jones said. David Cortez, the Utah State Compensatory Education director, will speak about teaching the bilingual child and teaching Indian units in the schools. The first session will begin at 1 p.m., the second at 2 p.m. Cortez deals extensively in bilingual education for the |