Public Law 117–335: To establish a Native American language resource center in furtherance of the policy set forth in the Native American Languages Act.

establishing, strengthening, and operating a Native American language resource center; and

staffing the center with individuals with relevant expertise and experience, including staff who speak American Indian and Alaska Native languages and the Native Hawaiian language and have worked in language education in the American Indian and Alaska Native languages and the Native Hawaiian language in a preschool, elementary school, secondary school, adult education, or higher education program.

improve the capacity to teach and learn Native American languages;

further Native American language use and acquisition;

preserve, protect, and promote the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice, and develop Native American languages in furtherance of—

address the effects of past discrimination and ongoing inequities experienced by Native American language speakers;136 STAT. 6144

support the revitalization and reclamation of Native American languages; and

support the use of Native American languages as a medium of instruction for a wide variety of age levels, academic content areas, and types of schools, including Native American language medium education.

to encourage and support the use of Native American languages within educational systems in the same manner as other world languages, including by encouraging State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and institutions of higher education to offer Native American language courses the same full academic credit as courses in other world languages;

Assessments.

to support the development, adoption, and use of educational outcome metrics aligned with the Native American language of instruction, including assessments, qualifications, and processes based on promising practices in Native American language medium education;

to provide assistance to Native American language programs seeking Federal resources;

to encourage and support teacher preparation programs that prepare teachers to teach Native American languages and to use Native American languages as a medium of instruction, including by disseminating promising practices and developing pedagogical programming and through appropriate alternative pathways to teacher certification;

to provide information and resources—

to support the use of distance learning technologies and training for parents, students, teachers, and learning support staff associated with Native American language programs, including—

to provide technical assistance for Native American communities and school systems to develop Native American language medium education programs in preschool, elementary 136 STAT. 6145 school, secondary school, or adult education programs conducted through the medium of Native American languages;

to support Native American language programs and Native American communities in—

for the operation of intensive programs, including summer institutes, to train Native American language speakers, to provide professional development, and to improve Native American language instruction through preservice and in-service language training for teachers; and

that otherwise support the Native American language resource center established under subsection (b) to carry out the activities required in subsection (c).

The terms “elementary school”, “local educational agency”, “secondary school”, and “State educational agency” have the meanings given the terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).

The term “” means—

The term “” has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).

The terms “Native American” and “Native American language” have the meanings given those terms in section 103 of the Native American Languages Act (25 U.S.C. 2902).136 STAT. 6146