How I am working to revitalize an Indigenous language and bring it into the future

The author captures threads of a dialect by recording words for "Michipicoten" in an open-air meeting with community elders. John-Paul Chalykoff, CC BY-NDLanguage is foundational to Indigenous communities, including my own, and a vital connection to our cultures. It is well documented how residential schools in Canada and boarding schools in the U.S. devastated Indigenous languages and severed cultural connections. While our languages are in decline, efforts to sustain them are ongoing, and I am