By Elizabeth Caldwell
Can a newly installed cellphone tower help preserve a language? Well, that's the hope of Cherokee Nationleaders in Oklahoma. Families can make reliable calls and send texts thanks to a nearly 360-foot-tall tower. Elizabeth Caldwell from member station KWGS reports on the significance of connectivity.
ELIZABETH CALDWELL: It's lunchtime in Kenwood, Okla., a tiny community of about 1,000 people on the Cherokee Nation Reservation. It's pretty far off the beaten path. In the community center, two women are serving soup and sandwiches.
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