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Article: Native languages and Spanish under attack.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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In Oklahoma and Arizona, direct attacks are being made upon the use and teaching of American (Indian) tongues and such languages as Spanish, while lobbying is taking place to amend the United States constitution to make English the only legal language for government purposes. Some argue that this campaign is a part of the anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiment being popularized by some racist politicians, but it also reflects the century-old animosity of some Anglo-North Americans towards Native Americans and all brown-skinned peoples.
English only, and the campaign against bilingual education, represents a threat to First American people because it would seem ...
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