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How Indigenous Millennials Are Using Tech to Save Their Dying Languages

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Decades of oppression and forced assimilation have led to the steep decline of Indigenous languages. Now tech-savvy young people are fighting to preserve their culture.

For generations, Lydia Prince’s family used storytelling as their primary way to pass down knowledge and language. “Elders would speak to the children in their language and the kids would naturally…

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