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Native American Heritage Month — Preserving, living indigenous languages
By Andi Murphy / amurphy at lcsun-news.com @andimurphy on Twitter
POSTED:   11/23/2013 01:00:41 AM MST

Donald Pepion's parents attended boarding schools at a time when Native
Americans were not permitted to speak their language.

"It was hard to be Indian," said Pepion, a member of the Blackfeet tribe of
Montana. "So as a result of that, they didn't use the language at home a
lot. We know that in both boarding schools and mission schools kids were
abused if they tried to use their language or tried to express any of their
culture."

Through forced assimilation many tribes lost vast amounts of their culture
and language, he said.

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