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Cherokees fight to keep their language alive in schools
In Lost City Oklahoma kindergarten class Cherokee is taught as the sole language at public school with 10 students. Tribal leaders push long term immersion to prevent language extinction as elders recount punitive pasts for speaking Cherokee.
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Lost City
Okla
Lost City School
Tulsa
Annette Millard
Oklahoma
Navajo
Southwest
Cherokee Nation
Chad Smith
Sequoyah High School
Tahlequah
Smith
Lane Smith
Anna Christie