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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can come up with $$$ to study the language of young white men today, but not the languages of people we conquered and marginalize. [/quote]

I don't know what you are referring to, but that's what happens when people are conquered.

The people living in the United States are overwhelmingly descendants of Europeans, so those are the languages that we study.  What would be the point of learning Navajo?[/quote]

My mother in law speaks an indigenous language and also Spanish. I wish that she'd spoken the indigenous language to my wife growing up, but she didn't. My wife's grandfather was very against his kids using the indigenous language at home, which was sadly common for the time. While my mother in law is proud of her language she also seems to have some residual shame associated with it and only speaks it with her generation. It's a shame that the language has been lost, and I think my wife's grandfather was foolish and domineering in this manner. However, that doesn't change the fact that Spanish is the only language that everyone in my wife's family speaks, and because of that fact our priority is for our daughter to speak Spanish. [/quote]

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