The legislation that this Committee passed and that become law, the Native American Languages Act of 1990, is the historic moment in which the United States government reversed its practice of discrimination against the use and promotion of the first peoples of this United States of America's languages, to include its use in education.
Schatz highlights the significance of the Native American Languages Act in reversing discrimination against indigenous languages.
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