Indians in Brazil our languages (Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2000)
Previously released on DVD.. - Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 3, 2011). - Filmed in Brazil
Part of the Indians in Brazil series, Our Languages relates the historic repression of indigenous languages in Brazil. Many Indian languages were nearly lost thanks to missionaries and merchants - who rewarded Indians for learning Portuguese with status and material gifts - and government-sponsored schools that punished children for speaking in their native tongues