PBS "We Shall Remain": Teaching Teenagers
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American Experience (in association with NAPT). "Teaching Teenagers." PBS "We Shall Remain" documentary series. April 13, 2009. Film. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/native_now/language_cherokee_2, accessed April 19, 2013)
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