Increasingly, young Native Americans grow up speaking only English, learning at best a few words of their ancestral tongue. It helps them get friends. Teachers use it because it helps them realize their curriculum objectives. To an indigenous community, it is a means to increase its youth's knowledge and appreciation of their area, people, language, culture, the way the society works, history. Also, it it is a means to recover heritage.
Language is essential to human identity.
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