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Live Your Language: "Where you are from..." in Yurok

KHSU | By Jessica Eden

Published March 20, 2019 at 8:38 AM PDT

Live Your Language shares and celebrates the Native languages of northwestern California. This segment shares the Yurok way to share where you are from.

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Jessica Eden

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