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It is a feature of the twenty-first century that world languages are displacing local languages at an alarming rate, transforming social relations and complicat

The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the As

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