Americans Who Were Multilingual

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Americans Who Were Multilingual

• Lessons from Our Past
• Central Connecticut State University
• Christine Brown
• Assistant Superintendent
• Glastonbury Public Schools

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Alexander Hamilton
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Saccajawea
with Lewis Clark
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Thomas Jefferson
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Benjamin Franklin
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John Adams
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Sequoyah
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Trail of Tears 1838
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Captain Richard H. Pratt with Prisoners at Fort
Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. Kill the
Indian and Save the Man.1892
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Smith Sisters
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Jewish Children Learning Hebrew New York, circa
1900
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Happy New Year Card Circa 1900
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Immigrants and Immigration
"In the first place, we should insist that if the
immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an
American and assimilates himself to us, he shall
be treated on an exact equality with everyone
else, for it is an outrage to discriminate
against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated
upon the person's becoming in every facet an
American, and nothing but an American...There can
be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says
he is an American, but something else also, isn't
an American at all. We have room for but one
flag, the American flag... We have room for but
one language here, and that is the English
language... and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American
people."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
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• ''Language defines a people. A language
• expresses a people's national and ethnic
• identity. A people's language tells of their
• political, cultural and social life. Language
• articulates a people's world view. Surviving
• Eastern Algonquin languages show the
• fundamentally different way that Indian peoples
• and Europeans viewed the physical
• and spiritual worlds.''

Kevin McBride, PhD Professor of Anthropology,
University of Connecticut Director, Mashantucket
Pequot Museum and Research Center
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• Then There is the Future.