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MAALIYAH PAPILLION (VOICEOVER):
Our tribal historian, Jeffery

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Darensbourg is amazing.

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He's so many things,
and he's been

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teaching me Ishakkoy,
our native language,

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for the past two years.

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He's also been helping
me and the tribe

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reconnect with the language
by using our dictionary,

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a recent language
revitalization project

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that he's contributed to.

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This work is really important
because, at one point,

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Ishakkoy was considered
a dormant language.

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- --the language, you
know, like, and even

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the little bit that I know.

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But it gets you in
touch with the minds

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of people, your ancestors,
who can kind of still

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speak to you through
those languages from--

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- Yeah.

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- --you know, a good distance.

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- It's definitely been
a huge influence on me,

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and it's felt like
something I need to do,

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because I do want
to teach my children

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how to speak their language.

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