Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages

Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose languages

Biden's administration had a grant that was awarded to around 200 tribes and through tribal organizations to help them preserve language."