We often hear in our communities, people will say, we lost our language. I say, no, we did not lose it; it was taken.
Ben Ray Luján: “We often hear in our communities, people will say, we lost our language. I say, no, we did not lose it; it was taken.”
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Lujan emphasizes that the loss of language was not voluntary but a result of external actions.
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