Why were Navajos not allowed to speak their native language for many years starting in
the 1860s?

The US wanted to force the Navajos and other Native American tribes to assimilate into American culture, so they tried to destroy their culture by making them not speak their language (until WWII, where they became the renowned Navajo Code Talkers)

Explanation:

It was technically genocide, since the US wanted to get rid of all Native American culture.

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so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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