Language Maintenance And Language Renewal Among Cherokee People in Oklahoma

There was a time in the Americas when many very different languages were spoken by the diverse native peoples. This situation changed rapidly as waves of colonizing Europeans arrived, containing and controlling the native peoples, often forcing them to forfeit culture and language. Today remnants of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Barbara J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1992-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/647