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When you cannot pass on what was taken from you

My kids are losing their language because we live in town and I tried to teach them but my own fluency is broken from boarding school and I feel like I am failing them and my ancestors.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent confronts the intergenerational impact of cultural disruption on their ability to transmit heritage.

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