The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
The language carries practical and cultural information that supplements what the physical object itself can reveal.
The Makah language, like many Indigenous languages, was severely disrupted by the policies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The boarding school policies that removed Makah children from their families and communities and forbade the use of Indigenous languages in school settings reduced the intergenerational transmission of the language dramatically.
By the mid-twentieth century, the number of fluent Makah speakers had declined severely.
Language revitalization efforts at Neah Bay have worked to document, teach, and revive the Makah language.
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