I have spent a good deal of time working in remote (mostly northern) First Nations communities, and I learned to appreciate the “cultural storage capacity” that language provides. One example was when someone explained to me that the word people said as I was leaving (which I took to be them saying ‘goodbye’ to me),…

Canada’s willingness to force assimilation on their indigenous populations over the past 150 years is a crime against humanity.

My reservation is working hard to create more Menominee language teachers. It’s a struggle to save the language and culture.

I’m one of about 250 fluent speakers of an indigenous language. I doubt that there will be anyone fluent in two generations.

I want Nancy from The Craft to be involved in this. Because you know if the spell didn’t work, she would just stab him or run him over with a car.

Right on! Blessed be, Ladies!