Cultural+Extinction

=//__Cultural Extinction in the United States__//=

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 * ===Siletz is an American Indian language with only about five speakers left, however just this year, people are beginning to re-learn the language.===
 * ===People from west America, Canada, and Alaska began learning about Siletz and visited the awareness website and began spreading the language. Soon enough even Italy, Switzerland, and Poland began taking interest in learning the dying language.===
 * ===The Living Tongues Institute created 12 dictionaries for the Siletz language as it did for many other languages. For example, the Matukar Panau language war documented and allowed for 600 speakers to still preserve the language to this day.===
 * ===" 'There are a couple of sounds that are nowhere in the English language, like you’re going to spit, almost — kids seem much more open to that,' said Sonya Moody-Jurado, who grew up hearing a few words from her mother — like nose (mish), and dog (lin-ch’e’) — and has been attending with a grandson Siletz classes taught by Mr. Lane."===
 * ===When American setters began expanding and moving west and driving out Indians from their homes and grouped them together, Siletz was one of the major groups of its time and were pushed all the way to the pacific coast. Originally, their language prevailed and was preserved over many other tribes who's culture couldn't be preserved in those circumstances.===

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 * ===Currently, there are more than 2000 endangered languages(in 2012), and 200 of them are contained within America- 20 in Alaska alone.===
 * ===Language develops culture, and in the original development of the United States, eliminating other languages to enforce English was one of the steps America originally took and that's why America suffers from so much cultural extinction.===
 * ===Cultural trauma and cultural poverty inflicted by the United States is the reason that most education dropouts come from the Native American and Native Alaskan demographic (2010)===
 * ===The Native American Languages Act of 1990 was a program that encouraged the preservation of Native American languages and tribes in modern America, however there's been little success towards the youth of that age.===
 * ===A bumper sticker covered part of the truck's back bumper. The sticker read "Speak English or Go Home." The irony of that bumper sticker would be amusing were it not for the destruction such an attitude endorses and the lack of awareness it exemplifies.===

Government Web Source Cultural Preservation, Richard Norland, Embassy of United States Georgia []

Notes:
 * Georgia created the Ambassador's Fund For Cultural Preservation, the AFCP, in orderr to protect hundreds of cultural sites and objects in over 100 different countries
 * 14 different projects led by this program have been started in just Georgia alone, costing about 1 million dollars, as well as 600,000 in order to preserve the Gelati Monastery which is a UNESCO world heritage site
 * Other projects consist of preserving cultural documents, sites, and artifacts