There's a Portuguese novelist, he was named Salamago or something like that.

And he has these great stories, like one where everybody goes blind. It's an epidemic and the whole country goes blind.

And that's kind of what it's like for us.

It's like, you know, suddenly we're all mute.

We can't even speak.

We can't understand what we're saying.

It's like we can't speak.

And then one by one, we start speaking again,

and it's like, my God, what just happened to us? You know, we know, we're able to heal at

that point, you know, because we're able to communicate again. here.

Welcome to language keepers.

Emergence Magazine's six-part journey into the struggle for indigenous language survival in California.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people of present-day Morin County.

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This podcast series is a continuation of language keepers.

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