Radio Free Cherokee: Endangered Languages Take to the Airwaves (fwd link)

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Radio Free Cherokee: Endangered Languages Take to the Airwaves By Alexis
Hauk

   inShare0 Aug 15 2012, 11:05 AM ET *

How indigenous tongues facing extinction are finding new life on community
radio stations

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Arizona's KUYI 88.1 broadcasts in Hopi to approximately 9,000 people. (KUYI)

Loris Taylor, the CEO and president of Native Public Media, still has the
scars on her hands from when she was caught speaking Hopi in school and got
the sharp end of the ruler as a result. "They hit so hard, the flesh was
taken off," she remembers. "Deep down inside, it builds some resistance in
you."

Now, she's at the forefront of a movement to revive dead and dying
languages using an old medium: radio. As CEO and president of Native Public
Media, she's lobbied the FCC and overseen projects to get increasingly rare
tongues like Hopi onto airwaves so that Native Americans can keep their
ancestors' ways of speaking alive—and pass those ways of speaking to new
generations.

Access full article below:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/radio-free-cherokee-endangered-languages-take-to-the-airwaves/261165/
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