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'Home Ground': Language And Identity In Montana's Tribal Schools

Montana Public Radio | By Brian Kahn

Published April 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM MDT

Home Ground Radio with Brian Kahn

What does it mean to speak a language? Fundamentally, it means you can communicate with another person. Yet when the language is that of your Indian ancestors who go back to the mists of time it means that you carry that unique tradition.

(Broadcast: "Home Ground Radio", 04/03/16. Listen on the radio or online, Sundays at 11:10 a.m., or via podcast.)