Teaching the Chickasaw Language at Byng High School

Joshua Hinson

Joshua Hinson is an artist and Director of the Department of Chickasaw Language in the Division of History and Culture for the Chickasaw Nation. Here, Joshua talks about the Chickasaw language course he teaches at Byng High School in Oklahoma and how he’s helping educating young people on a subject they may not have known about.

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