The Loss of Language Equals the Loss of Identity, Feeling, Imagination and Memory

For all the languages that once existed in what is today The United States, how many are taught in schools - how many have been lost?

A new article speaks to the loss of American Indian languages  In the article, Rosalyn R. La Pierre writes that losing language "can be considered as extreme as the extinction of a plant or an animal. Once a language is gone, the traditional knowledge it carries also gets erased from society."

The article can be found here, and what follows is one of the videos embedded into the piece: