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TIL about Guy Tyler, who made hundreds of audio recordings of Native American languages. They provide an archive of languages in danger of being lost to erasure of native culture, as well as helped protect the sacred site at Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump [link to audio in comments].

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