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The Osage Nation Public Schools Support Program aims to steer a student through to success by assigning a field facilitator to look after every student. The program is administered to Osage students in Osage County by the Nation’s Education Department.

However, not many students have taken advantage of the program.

The Osage Nation Language Department recognized participants who attended the inaugural “Lunch with Language” course this spring during the final class meeting on May 11.

The Lunch with Language course targets students, especially government employees, who may not be able to attend weeknight language courses when they are typically held during fall and spring sessions. This past session’s courses were held Wednesdays during the noon lunch hour.

The Osage Nation Language Department has started two initiatives this year in offering daytime language class opportunities for the tribal government employees so they may learn basic Wah-Zha-Zhi words and sentences.

A “Lunch with Language” class is now available each Wednesday at noon through May where the students focus on the Osage symbols (orthography). Earlier this month, the department started an orientation program to introduce the language to the Nation’s government employees.

Osage News Students of the Osage language were honored Saturday with a dinner at Wakon Iron Hall. The dinner was hosted by the organization Friends of the Osage, which raises money throughout the year so that the Osage Language Department can have functions such as the dinner. About 50 students attended and those with the best attendance at each of the five language teaching sites were honored with a medal and a certificate. The students feasted on catered food from Burn Co., who cooks all of their food over an open flame.