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The effort to recover Indigenous languages also revitalizes culture, history, and identity

Simply put, our languages help make us whole again. When we empower our cultural selves through speaking our languages, we begin to undo the damage caused by years of oppression.

The quadrangle a the heart of the Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pa. Now the home of the U.S. Army War College, it was the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School from 1879 to 1918, where Indigenous cultures and languages were suppressed.
The quadrangle a the heart of the Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pa. Now the home of the U.S. Army War College, it was the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School from 1879 to 1918, where Indigenous cultures and languages were suppressed.Read moreCHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer
    by Daryl Wade Baldwin, The Conversation
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