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1). Indigenous languages aren't being "lost." It isn't like they have been misplaced or neglected. They have been intentionally targeted by genocidal colonial policies and structures. They have been systematically dismantled, stolen from our tongues.
2). Please stop saying "lost," they have been killed. It is disrespectful to the traumatic experience of those who have been targeted and it works to absolve or diminish the complicity of this country and all who continue to benefit from the erasure of Indigenous presence here.
3). Same goes for conversations about cultures "disappearing" and the narrative that ethnologists and anthropologists were preserving or saving them for us. Cultures were being erased, assassinated piece by piece.
4). The fact that we as Nations have endured and persevered, held onto our songs, languages and art forms, is a testament not to the archivist accomplices in the war against our ways, that took our sacred objects as hostages, but rather to the incredible strength of our peoples.
