Program using storytelling events to save Navajo language

GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — A group of Navajo Nation elders is using traditional storytelling to try to pass down their native language to the next generation.
The Gallup Independent reports the Dine Council of Elders for Peace is beginning to hold storytelling events in Gallup, New Mexico, as a way to keep youth in New Mexico and Arizona engaged in the Navajo language.
Organizers plan events around storytelling, games and star-gazing.
Group member Mary Jane Harrison says the younger generation ha