Endangered Languages: Revitalizing Native American Languages

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Indigenous languages carry unique philosophies, histories, ceremonies, and irreplaceable environmental knowledge of biodiversity accumulated over millenia.  Native languages constitute both the core and the foundations of tribal identities and cultures by mapping ancestors' universes and ties to traditional homelands. 

But in the United States, more than 70 of the remaining 139 Native languages could fall silent in the next 5 years unless immediate action is taken to teach them to younger generations of tribal citizens.

Our program is partnering with tribes to help develop the resources they need to do just that: to teach their language to their children, to keep it a living heritage. 

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