My ancestors were speaking to me

The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.

My ancestors were speaking to me,” said Freeman of the sounds captured when American Indians still inhabited California’s Salinas Valley. “It was like coming home.”

Posted on timeFebruary 18th, 2008 by userSimon Greenhill



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