Follow Us On:
There are at least 64 “Native American tribes in the United States that no longer exist as tribes today.”
“A tribe can have living descendants and still be extinct as a political entity.”
One of the ways a tribe can easily go extinct is by conquest, decimation, or loss of culture.
Once culture dies, language follows suit.
As soon as both culture and language die, the people will be subsumed into other cultures.
This is the reason nations do not play with their cultures.
This is the reason Pope John Paul II had to apologise for the destruction of indigenous cultures during the Christian missions.
What has happened has happened. We have cried and yelled enough.
The right thing to do now is for us to stop further destruction both in thoughts, words, and deeds.
Let us begin to rebuild what can be rebuilt in accordance with time, space, resources, and abilities.
We need back our salient cultural values that sustained our societies.
To achieve this, we must break down every wall of division among us.
