Learning Journal #7

[Yuqi Shuai]

In the article "School was also once the enemy of tribal languages. Government boarding schools, where generations of Indian children were sent, aimed to stamp out native ways and tongues. Now, the language is taught through the sixth grade at the public charter school in Siletz, and the tribe aims to have a teaching program in place in the next few years to meet Oregon’s high school language requirements, allowing Siletz, in a place it originated, to be taught as a foreign language." When people are sent to school, you are more than encouraged to chat with people in the mainstream language. It is easily for a language to die out under that circumstances. So when a language extinct, the diversity extinct. It was a horrible thing at least for me because I can not imagine the whole word speaking the same language.