Ninety percent of the world’s languages are expected to disappear by the end of the century – the majority of them spoken by indigenous peoples. To mitigate that loss in the U.S., President Joe Biden recently signed two bills into law that will support Native American language schools and programs. Special correspondent Joie Chen met with leaders in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to learn how the Cherokee nation is working to preserve the past for the future.
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