Quote:
Originally Posted by icecube
Probably the biggest hurdle in language revitalization is the loss of language due to residential school experiences over the generations.
|
Gaelic is dying in Ireland, but it's not because of an evil agenda to stamp it out. It's because kids don't have Gaelic TV to watch or any reason to speak it. Spanish-speaking immigrants to the U.S. stop speaking their mother tongue by the third generation.
You're obsessed with residential schools. The fate of Canada's Natives would have been little different without residential schools. You only have to look at the lives of Natives in the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, and all the other countries with Native populations and no history of residential schools to see that.