UM Graduate Student Committed to Saving Her Native Language
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“I think my late great aunt Mary Lucy Parker would be proud to know that her great-niece only speaks Salish to her children,” Decker said, “and is keeping our language alive and thriving.” -- Aspen Decker, UM Linguistics graduate student featured in UM News! (October 2021)