<h1 class="headline">Radio Free Cherokee: Endangered Languages Take to the Airwaves</h1>
                
                
                        <span class="offScreen">By <span class="authors"><span class="author">Alexis Hauk</span></span></span>
                        
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                <span class="date">Aug 15 2012, 11:05 AM ET</span>
                        
                        
                                
        
                
                        
        
                        <em><br><br>How indigenous tongues facing extinction are finding new life on community radio stations<br><br></em> <img alt="kuyi 615 radio.jpg" src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/culture_test/kuyi%20615%20radio.jpg" class="mt-image-none" style="" height="272" width="615"><div class="caption" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,43,48);padding:0pt;font-size:11px">
Arizona's KUYI 88.1 broadcasts in Hopi to approximately 9,000 people. (KUYI)</div> 



 <br>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."

<p>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. <br></p><p>Access full article below:</p><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/radio-free-cherokee-endangered-languages-take-to-the-airwaves/261165/">http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/radio-free-cherokee-endangered-languages-take-to-the-airwaves/261165/</a><br>
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