Upper Volta at the 1972 Summer Olympics union team shortly before the Olympics. The majority of the 28 countries in the Olympic boycott were African nations. When the country returned to the Olympics, in 1988, they would be known as Burkina Faso. Upper Volta at the 1972 Summer Olympics The Republic of Upper Volta (as Upper Volta) competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. This was the first and only time the country participated under that name at the Olympic Games. However, the first Upper Voltan athletes took part in the Olympics at the 1924 Games as part of the French contingent. André Bicaba
Alaska Native languages Alaska Native languages For the Alaska Native languages, the years from 1960 to 1970 were, in Michael E. Krauss's words, "a transitional period of rebirth of interest in Alaska Native languages and a shift of developments in their favor". At the time of statehood in 1959, there were twenty indigenous languages spoken within the boundaries of the state of Alaska. Most of these languages belong to one of two large language families: Eskimo-Aleut and Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Na-Dene). Though not included as a modern Alaska Native language, Tsetsaut was spoken in the region of the Portland Canal in southern Alaska at the