This article, Native Americans Fight to Save Endangered Languages. was found in LiveScience , February 2012.  The author, Clara Moskowitz, discusses the possible disappearnace of many Native languages, and the methods used to try to revive the languages before they become extinct.  Moskowitz introduces Alfred Lane, the sole fluent speaker of the Native American language Siletz Dee-ni.  In response to the decline of this language, a group started teaching it in school twice a week.  It may yet survive, but the future is uncertain.

Molowitz also talks of a online talking dictionary sponsored by National Geographic’s Enduring Voices project and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages,  This dictionary is a collection of the many endangered languages.

“As native peoples assimilate more and more into the dominant cultures around them, and as younger generations grow up speaking dominant languages like English in school and with their peers, fewer and fewer people are becoming fluent in native tongues.” With the loss of the native language, follows a loss of culture and a knowledge base of animals and plants.

Margaret Noori, a professor at the University of Michigan offers a suggestion to keep a language alive. She says that we must create in it . She teaches Ashininaabemowin language through the use of technology. She has websites about the language, and she uses social media, like Facebook, and Twitter, to spread the word.  The survival of the language is dependent on the younger generation taking up the cause, following the language and the culture.