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LINGUISTICS Advisory Report Situation It has been discovered that there may be huge oil reserves on Indian reservation lands in the Southeast of California called ‘South Mojave Reserve’ that also extends to Arizona. Taking into account United States’ considerable need of locating more energy resources within its borders, it is imperative for the state of California to take jurisdiction over the oil reserves for further exploration and exploitation. The problem is that the oil reserves do not belong to the United States directly, but they belong to the Native Indian Tribe living in that Native Indian reserves namely ‘Hacama’. Clearly, the only way for the state of California to take their hands on those oil reserves is when an agreement has…show more content…
But now, 45 of the languages has no fluent speakers at all, 17 have less than 5 speakers, and lastly 36 have only elderly speakers. There is not a single Native Indian American that speaks his/her native language for daily communication. The major linguistic decline of the Native Americans first started in the 1880s when children of the Natives are forced to be separated from their families to attend boarding schools in English Language. This is still an ongoing practice until now, where Native Indian Americans are immersed in an English language environment and are not taught in their own native languages. Also, Native Americans chose to stop speaking their languages due to the discrimination and abuse in schools if they speak them (Leanne Hinton). Native American Indian languages also have not been standardized, and most of them do not have any written form. As these languages are created in the era of the primitives, the usage of these language are limited to only basic domains of life and may not be used in addressing many of today’s topics and domains of life. According to Leanne Hinton, there is little or no space in the present day way of life for the use of indigenous…show more content…
There are in total of approximately 118 Native American Indian tribes in California, along with their 98 distinct languages. To make available bilingual education for all tribes with their distinct languages in California, it would require great amount of funds. Furthermore, most of their languages have not been standardized yet, and standardization of 98 languages will be a huge hassle and also requires immense amount of funds. Another consequence is the yearning of other language groups for bilingual education. This goes back to the exception to bilingual education for only Native American languages because of The Native American Languages Act by the US congress. No act on other languages has ever been so explicitly stated by the US congress in all its history. Also, the providing of bilingual education for Native American Indians will not resemble the exploding controversy of the Oakland Ebonics proposal. As the Ebonics proposal proposed for AAVE to be recognized as language (Wikipedia), which many do not agree upon, the providing of bilingual education to Native Americans do not require recognition of their languages as ‘languages’ because their languages have been recognized as distinct languages and do not resemble other languages. Unlike AAVE, which resembles the English language very
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