Quotation of the Day: Cultural Crisis for American Indians as Elders Die - The New York Times

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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

“It’s like we’re having a cultural book-burning. We’re losing a historical record, encyclopedias. One day soon, there won’t be anybody to pass this knowledge down.”

JASON SALSMAN, a spokesman for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma, on the cultural toll the pandemic is taking on Native Americans as language and traditions die with those who know them best.

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