Marie Smith Jones was born in 1918 in Cordova, Alaska. She grew up speaking Eyak, an indigenous language that her people had spoken for thousands of years. But as colonization and forced assimilation took hold, indigenous languages were suppressed. Children were punished for speaking their native tongues. Communities were displaced. Speakers died. By the 1990s, Marie was the last person who could speak Eyak fluently. Linguists worked desperately to record her speech and preserve what they could
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