John Reese, the last fluent Shm'algyack speaker in Ketchikan, speaks to a language class Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in the Ketchikan Indian Community building in Ketchikan, Alaska. Through past U.S. government policy to assimilate Native language and culture to Western ideals, and now, the impeding rush of modern-day society, the Tsimshian language of Sm'algyax and others of Alaska Natives have widely been forgotten. (Taylor Balkom/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)
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