Remembering a Lost Language (fwd link)
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Remembering a Lost Language
By Marina Gaytan
USA
Visalia - When Deyetta “Cassetta” Crowley-Gaytan stopped speaking her
Native American language during her teenage years, she never thought
some of the language would be forgotten. And when her long time family
friend, Darlene Franco, approached her this summer to ask if she would
become a Native language teacher for the Owens Valley Career
Development Center, Gaytan never thought that 60 years later, she
would be speaking “Choinumni” again.
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