Young Navajos Study to Save Their Language

For part of her life, Sylvia Jackson stopped speaking her native language, Navajo. Like many Native American children, she had little chance to speak her language. “We had to speak English. So I lost a lot of just speaking the Navajo language.” More than 100 years ago, the U.S. government began sending Native American children to boarding schools. All the instruction was in English. The native cul

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For part of her life, Sylvia Jackson stopped speaking her native language, Navajo. Like many Native American children, she had little chance to speak her language. “We had to speak English. So I lost a lot of just speaking the Navajo language.” More than 100 years ago, the U.S. government began

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ナバホ語の保護活動について