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I'm sure you could trace the tribe genealogy and get in touch with tribe members that knew your grandparents and, never too late to get back in touch with your roots. Native American history and culture is so unique and beautiful, it's such a tragedy that it was destroyed and suppressed. I really wish we could recover what was lost and celebrate it

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We’ve done this, many years ago. It’s tough when the native language has no standardized written component, and basically no preserved records. The best genealogical records are the ones done by the schools.

There’s one person in my extended family who speaks the language still. And of course, they know it in a preservationist type of sense. The language is extinct outside of any academic sort of sense.

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