[SunkenCiv]

I think this McClatchy Tribune story (underlying source) is okay to excerpt.

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[sinanju]

If they are willing to make the effort on their own, then I say more power to them.

However, I have read that well-meaning efforts at “bilingual” education in the bush villages of Alaska has raised a generation of Alaskan natives who cannot speak properly in either English or their tribal tongues.

Government has to stay out of it, either way.

[bert]

Unstated is the fact that the Euchee speaking tribe is in fact already extinct or nearly so.

Except for a motivated single academic or so that can persuade a graduate student There will be no speakers, there will be no such language. The people and the language were absorbed and are extinct

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Languages as well as plant and animal species go extinct all the time. It’s only recently that we’ve got our panties in a bunch over it.

[CatherinePPP]

I don’t see any problem with that. Those people all speak English already. It’s not like immigrants who don’t want to have to learn English or be part of American society. More like just learning Latin or something.

[fishtank]

Wycliffe Bible Translators does a great job in this area...........

[sinanju]

According to Wiki; the island nation of New Guinea has 12% of the world’s languages—about 850 languages for 12 million people, many more a hundred years ago.

Because of it’s isolated, jungled, mountainous interior, each valley evolved its own distinctive language and culture, in all honesty, does anyone think THAT’S worth preserving?

[AuntB]

“
“In the next few years, my tribal community will either see our language restored to a new generation, or we will bury it forever in the grave of our last few elderly speakers,” Jacob Manatowa-Bailey said of the Oklahoma-based Sauk language.”

So what’s the gripe? It’s your language heritage, teach it. It’s your responsibility, not society or the government. No one is stopping anyone from speaking another language. But if you claim the rights of an American, you better speak English as well or just shut up.