Language loss in contemporary cultures

Using the articles answer the following:

What is meant by the term language loss and the impact it has on the cultures?
What historical and contemporary factors have or are contributing to language loss among Indigenous North American communities? 
What is being done to preserve and revitalize heritage languages as offered by the Salish-Pend d’Oreille, the Yup’ik, and other languages like the Polynesian languages Hawaiian or Maori also mentioned in the article or the additional links below.
Find and describe briefly a useful additional website (not one listed below) that discusses the issue of language death or language revitalization.

Additional sources for information may be found at:

A separate Native American context involving the Arapaho of Wyoming: “Its native tongue facing extinction, Arapaho tribe teaches the young.” (The New York Times, 10/16/2008)(https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/17arapaho.html?pagewanted=1)
A South American example is the role poetry and curing chants among Ecuadorian Kichwa speakers have in preserving their language: Raul Martinez’ The Verbal Art of Kichwa Reclamation at Anthropology News website (September 19, 2019).(https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/the-verbal-art-of-kichwa-reclamation/)
Another story about how poetry can play a role in preserving languages in the context of their cultural use: “The people saving lost words”. (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171013-the-people-saving-lost-words)
Maori Language history and revitalization(http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/maori-language-week)

The submitted assignment should be at least 500 words long, written in clearly presented English, responses should show an understanding of the issues involved or questions being asked, and include some degree of individual perspective beyond that which is presented in the assigned material itself. For clarity it would be best to present each response separate in separate paragraphs.