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Show Utes stressing education By Bmce Hills Deseret News staff writer FT. DUCHESNE Ute on non-Ut- About 95 percent of the adult Utes the reservation speak the Ute language fluently. Their English, however, is not as good An unusual thing is occurring The Ute adults are not teaching their children Ute He said this may be due to adults believing their children should be more modem m order to deal with modem Mr. Cuch society and its special problems Whatever the reason, our children are not learning Ute at home and, sadly, they arent really learning En DESERET NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY non-Ute- glish. either. They go to school with a big handicap," he said He said the Ute children have trouble communicating their needs and e problems to others, especially to teachers Its all bottled up inside and when it does get out it may be m the form of inappropriate behavior that gets them into more trouble m school, he said Cuch said less than three percent of Ute students m elementary and secon dary school speak Ute fluently. It is not a written language We have no alphabet We hope soon, how ever, to create a written language, but it will be very expensive and not in the immediate future, I'm afraid The tribe's children attend nearby Todd Elementary and West Junior High. Both schools are off the reservation and staffed entirely by non-Ut- e teachers, custodians and cooks. "Even Indian children begin to underachieve by ihe time they are in first grade. By the time they are in junior high school, Ute children are two and a half to three years behind other students in the classroom, Forrest Curh, the tribe s education director, says We arent sure why, he added "But we know there is definitely a language problem. t'if school bus drivers are Cuch said "The federal government has paid to hire part time teacher aides , tutors and attendance counselors w ho are Ute But 1 would like to see Utes in regular teaching positions and as bus drivers, cooks and such, he added Cuch said Utes make up about 50 percent of the enrollment at both Todd and West "The federal government pays large amounts of money to the schools so our children can attend Utes represent about 11 percent of Uintah Countys population and a sizable part of the countys economy Vet Utes are not represented on the school board, on the County Commission or on the teaching staff at any school, he saidk He admitted that few Utes are qualified to teach presently "But we are in the midst of a large scale program to train Utes as teachers It started three years ago Any Ute who wants to go to college can "Weve 10 trainees in schools now learning to be teachers and working on education degrees Cuch said about 75 Utes attend Union High School in Roosevelt Almost as many attend boarding schools during freshmen through senior years of high school About 30 attend the Intermountain School in Brigham City, 23 are in colleges and universities, and about a dozen are enrolled in adult vocational training courses About 35 more attend the New Life Center Training Center for handicapped persons m Venial, the Sherman Indian School m Riverside, Calif ; tb Stewart Indian School near Caisou City Nev ; the Chemawa Indian School in Portland. Ore , and several schools in Phoenix, Ariz "There is a new dedication among Ute youths, but it is difficult to surmount all the barriers and difficul ties they have getting a good education, Cuch said "Here in the Uintah Basin there is a gioat deal of racial prejudice insidious and subtle though it may be , 20, 1977 E 3 I dont believe the answer is pn all Indian school on the reservation,. however We need to be with and work with he stressed. "1 think we simpiy need more help educating our children to speak and write English Cuch, 25, was born on the reservation He went to Todd and West schools non-Ute- s, but attended a boarding school, Wasatch Academy, m Mt. Pleasant, for high school. He graduated from Westminster College in 1973 with a degree in behavioral science I know how difficult it is for a Ute to get a good education. 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