Its Native Tongue Facing Extinction, Arapaho Tribe Teaches the Young »
Posted By engineer 1 year, 2 months ago in StyleAt 69, her eyes soft and creased with age, Alvena Oldman remembers how the teachers at St. Stephens boarding school on the Wind River Reservation would strike students with rulers if they dared to talk in their native Arapaho language.
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Every day, oral languages die from lack of anyone left alive to speak them. In northern climes, the Inuit risk losing their oral traditions to loss of people willing and wanting to carry on traditions. Hawaiian is no longer the prominent language of the 50th state. We need to record for posterity some of these older and vibrant languages. With each passing language, some more of the world's cultures and heritages are lost forever.
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