First Americans

Good luck with this problem.

Most of the tribes in the northwest are greatly diminished from something called genocide.

Genocide destroys not only the people but also their cultures, identities and languages.

With Federal Indian policies ranging from extermination to relocation to whatever you care to call it now, they have accomplished their mission for the most part and that is/was to be rid of the Indian people in the United States.

Sure, there are plenty of us mixed-bloods left but few if any of us speak or know much if any of the indigenous languages that are part of us.

Sad reality really really really.