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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif">In March of this year, the Yurok Tribe lost Archie Thompson, a widower who raised eight children. Archie was the last living native speaker of the Yurok language, but, thankfully, the language didn’t die with him. Today Yurok is taught in public schools in the Klamath River region of Northern California.</font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">For the Yurok, language is the foundation of what connects the soul of their culture to the environment in which they live. It is through their language that they are able to give thanks to the land which they consider sacred for all that it has offered them. Annelia Norris-Hillman, Yurok Tribe member and Yurok Language instructor at Weitchpec Elementary says, “We are created in this place for a reason. We are here to give thanks for and to take care of everything that surrounds us. Language is really the essence of our culture. Without it, we don’t really exist.”<br>
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