Re: Language and SPM

* benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Of all the other non-dying Native languages, how many are used by
cultures who support going into movies by their young people? Where are
all the Cherokee actors? Cree? etc.?

I don't know. Your imagined legions of Siouan actors are equally
invisible.

I happened to have contact to a lot of anthropologists when "Dancing
with Wolves" came out, and of course, the Lakota course went to see it
together (not me). As I heard, the professor commented that even in that
movie, the young people weren't sounding like "real" native speakers.
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