Episode 4 Preview | Language Is Life
Preview: 11/14/2023 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret recordings to "Star Wars" films dubbed in Navajo, follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.
Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.
Episode 4 Preview | Language Is Life
Preview: 11/14/2023 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret recordings to "Star Wars" films dubbed in Navajo, follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- We need to put things in place immediately to prevent our language from vanishing.
- What I'm going to do now is to continue to carry the voice of my ancestor.
- Think about this space as an archive, right?
- Language is who I am.
- We will survive as long as we teach language, as long as we keep it alive.
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Donald Soctomah and Dwayne Tomah fight keep the Passamaquoddy language alive. (5m 34s)
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Manny Wheeler dubs Star Wars into Navajo to help keep the Navajo language alive. (5m 50s)
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Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.