David Boxley
14:12 - 14:44
"they all said, oh, we heard our grandparents speaking Somali, but they'd always tell us, this is not for you. Or, you know, they kind of laugh at them when they tried to talk. It was because they were trying to protect them from what they'd all gone through."
“they all said, oh, we heard our grandparents speaking Somali, but they'd always tell us, this is not for you. Or, you know, they kind of laugh at them when they tried to talk. It was because they were trying to protect them from what they'd all gone through.”
- Speaker
- David Boxley
- Timestamp
- 14:12 – 14:44
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 12, 2026
From the transcript
When we first got there. But as the children of those pioneers, uh, got sent off to school, and then their children, you know, who said— they all said, oh, we heard our grandparents speaking Somali, but they'd always tell us, this is not for you. Or, you know, they kind of laugh at them when they tried to talk. It was because they were trying to protect them from what they'd all gone through. And so that breaking You know, amazing what one generation can do to lose that knowledge.
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