President Biden announced a 10-year plan to revive Native Languages. Could this 10-year plan last about six weeks until the Biden Administration is over?
The plan is called the “10-Year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization.” It was announced at the Tribal Nations Summit on Monday. It denounces the forced assimilation of Native peoples and the loss of Native languages and calls for federal funding to support schools and teachers that teach Native languages, including Hawaiian.
The plan will cost $16.7 billion between 2025 and 2035 or $1.5 billion per year but the Biden administrations says that it is necessary to prevent the loss of 167 languages that are currently spoken by 2050.
