99% of Native American Languages are in Danger of Going Extinct

'Many indigenous languages in the United States are in critical danger of dying out. Despite efforts to preserve them, all but two of the 115 indigenous languages in the United States are at risk of extinction.  The Administration for Native Americans has allocated approximately $12 million annually to tribes to preserve native languages but that’s a small fraction of what was spent in the late 1800s and early 1900s to support boarding school infrastructure, which contributed to the decline of many indigenous languages.  We spoke with Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee writer and host of This Land podcast.' -- The Takeaway