Illustrativemathematics. ReadWorks.org. CCSS_Math_Priorities. Revival of nearly extinct Yurok language is a success story. Del Norte High School student Chuski Scott holds up Yurok language flash… (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles…) EUREKA, Calif. — Carole Lewis throws herself into her work as if something big is at stake.
"Pa'-ah," she tells her Eureka High School class, gesturing at a bottle of water. She whips around and doodles a crooked little fish on the blackboard, hinting at the dip she's prepared with "ney-puy" — salmon, key to the diet of California's largest Native American tribe. For thousands of years before Western settlers arrived, the Yurok thrived in dozens of villages along the Klamath River. By the 1990s, however, academics had predicted their language soon would be extinct.