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When Europeans arrived in North America, approximately 300 American Indian languages were spoken. Today, about 100 are still spoken and only a few, such as Navajo and Tohono O’odham, are being learned by children in the home, often in more remote regions of the reservations. But even in such communities, the number of children who can speak these languages is dropping rapidly.</p>
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