Commission helps language preservation plan (fwd link)

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Commission helps language preservation plan

BY JEREMY WARREN, THE STARPHOENIX JUNE 25, 2012
Canada

Emile Highway couldn't speak one word of English when he arrived at
the Guy Hill Indian Residential School.

He spoke Woodland Cree with his family for his first seven years, but
the school didn't allow him or his fellow students to speak their
native languages, leaving him without a voice.

"We only used it at the far end of the playground," Highway said at
the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Saskatoon.
"The English language was a necessity for us to leave behind our
traditions. That was the message - being Native was no good. White was
right."

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