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To: Verginius Rufus
...but we shouldn't accelerate the disappearance of Indian languages that were spoken here pre-1607.

A great deal of that was done in boarding schools in the late 1800s. The children were not permitted to speak their native tongues.

22 posted on 02/19/2014 10:58:59 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

When I visited the Custer battlefield (Little Bighorn) some years ago I overheard a conversation about how the Crow Indians were told they had to speak English. I think that was by church leaders. The Crow were allies of the Seventh Cavalry in the war against the Sioux in 1876.


23 posted on 02/19/2014 11:34:11 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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