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indigenous languages as second languages  

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  • Since the conception of American Indian education, school language policies have focused on assimilative and subtractive education: stressing the learning of English at the expense of ancestral languages. For indigenous families and communities, this has meant the suppression and loss of the mother tongue and a situation in which speaking an indigenous mother tongue in early childhood has become a rarity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Indigenous Languages as Second Languages]

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