The English were the first to come here and refuse to learn the "native" language.
Let's play that card now right????
Why not give back Texas, CA, and AZ???????????????
Which native language?
* Abenaki
* Alabama
* Aleut
* Anishinaabe
* Apache
* Arapaho
* Blackfoot
* Cherokee
* Cheyenne
* Chickasaw
* Chinook Jargon
* Choctaw
* Comanche
* Cree
* Creek
* Crow
* Dakota
* Delaware
* Gros Ventre
* Hupa
* Inuit
* Iroquois
* Kiowa
* Klallam
* Kumeyaay
* Lakhota
* Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
* Menominee
* Miami
* Mikmac (Mi'kmaq)
* Michif
* Mingo
* Mohawk
* Montagnais Innu
* Nakota
* Naskapi
* Natick
* Navajo
* Ojibwe
* O'odham
* Omaha-Ponca
* Oneida
* Papago
* Penobscot
* Potawatomi
* Salish
* Natick
* Seminole
* Shoshoni
* Siouan
* Spokane
* Tlingit
* Unangam Tunuu
* Wampanoag
* Winnebago
* Wintu
* Wiyot
* Yurok
Hahahahaha....Thats a good one.... but totally unrelated to the issue nonetheless.
In case you weren't aware of it...When the English landed on this continent (among other groups), America was not yet a unified country with a common language.
The various Indian tribes had different "languages" which were grouped in seperate "nations" each with more or less a common "tongue."
In any event, I think most reasonable folks would agree that if immigrant Spanish parents deny their children the opportunity to learn English as a prime language, their children will be at a tremendous social and economic didadvantage. That is simply a reality.
As I understand it, Cortes had a lady interpreter. IAC. to this very day what distiguisges a Mexican from an Indian is that the former speaks Spanish and the latter his native tongue.