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Indigenous languages crucial to cultural flourishing</h1><div class="" style="font-size:7pt;display:inline;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">BY <div class="" style="font-size:8pt;display:inline">
<span class="" style="font-size:8pt"><span class="" style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/19012" style="font-size:7pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none">ÂPIHTAWIKOSISÂN</a></span></span></div>
</div><span style="color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px"> | </span><span class="" style="font-size:7pt;display:inline;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">DECEMBER 4, 2013</span><br>
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</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20px">To hear non-Indigenous people tell it, we've been teetering on the edge of extinction since not too long after Contact. That narrative hasn't changed much over the years, though the cause of our cultural and perhaps even physical demise has varied somewhat in the details. There have been moments of colonial guilt over past policies, but in every age the contemporary opinion is focused on the inherent inability of Indigenous peoples to survive in the supposedly modern world.</span><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Access full article below: </font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/apihtawikosisan/2013/12/indigenous-languages-crucial-to-cultural-flourishing">http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/apihtawikosisan/2013/12/indigenous-languages-crucial-to-cultural-flourishing</a></font><br>
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