One of the more urgent tasks associated with Trust and Reconciliation in Canada is the restoration of Indigenous languages. "The residential school system, among other abuses, denied Indigenous children their culture, with survivors reporting that they were severely punished for speaking their own languages." Unless redressed, the effort to wipe out Indigenous languages will have succeeded. It may well anyway; for example, "there are roughly 20 fluent speakers of the Oneida language left." Still, "data suggests 'that many people, especially young people, are learning Aboriginal languages as second languages.'"
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