Not even that. The Indians I know still speak their languages, hunt, raise horses, grow corn and beans. One resurrected the Wampanoag language at MIT weith Chomsky's help,from a single surving early 18th-century bilingual New Testament and taught it to her infant daughter, whose first lanuage it was--after 2 centuries! and it's spreadi…
Not even that. The Indians I know still speak their languages, hunt, raise horses, grow corn and beans. One resurrected the Wampanoag language at MIT weith Chomsky's help,from a single surving early 18th-century bilingual New Testament and taught it to her infant daughter, whose first lanuage it was--after 2 centuries! and it's spreading. Lots don't, I know: Euro-Americans (including Canadians) tried hard to make them ignorant of their way of life and their languages, basically kidpnapping them into boarding schools for that purpose, "Indian Schools." I'm just saying they persisted, and worked from traces, and treasured the old people who remembered, and in some areas were not even deracinated, like northern British Columbia etc. And they are scholars, writing their own histories now. Bravo!
Not even that. The Indians I know still speak their languages, hunt, raise horses, grow corn and beans. One resurrected the Wampanoag language at MIT weith Chomsky's help,from a single surving early 18th-century bilingual New Testament and taught it to her infant daughter, whose first lanuage it was--after 2 centuries! and it's spreading. Lots don't, I know: Euro-Americans (including Canadians) tried hard to make them ignorant of their way of life and their languages, basically kidpnapping them into boarding schools for that purpose, "Indian Schools." I'm just saying they persisted, and worked from traces, and treasured the old people who remembered, and in some areas were not even deracinated, like northern British Columbia etc. And they are scholars, writing their own histories now. Bravo!