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Article: Native language.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Native American Report
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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NATIVE LANGUAGE--In an unusual departure from common practice, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), last month had a speech he delivered on the Senate floor published in the Congressional Record in Lakota, an American Indian language, in addition to English. The speech, which appears on page S8579 of the July 23 Congressional Record, concerns the "code talkers" of World War II, who were American Indian troops who sent messages in ...