The Government Plot To Erase Native Languages
The Government Plot To Erase Native Languages
For more than 100 years, Native children were forcibly taken from their homes and relocated to church or state-run boarding schools. The result of this government program — with the motto “kill the Indian and save the man” — amounted to cultural genocide. For Dakota language teacher Redwing Thomas, saving his Native language today is a matter of resistance. “There's mass amounts of abuse that has happened in those schools, and that's almost directly why we don't know our language today.”
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