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Originally Posted by Orion Morris
And about the reservations.... Well their culture is almost gone... their original knowledge is almost lost and their language will be dead in another 50 years.... at least the tribes that live here on the Wind River.
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At what point does individual responsibility to maintain language and culture kick in? And there are several tribal groups who are doing just that - bringing their languages back from the dead, and taking advantage of the decline in harsh cultural suppression to reinvest meaning in their symbols and heritages. That some groups are failing to do this, well, what does that say? That some are able to reassert their cultural identities after centuries of oppression, well, what does that say about our modern system?