Tens are formed alternately by juxtaposing the word for ten and its multiplier digit, and by multiplying the word for twenty: In compound numerals, the ten is put first, then the word. That’s why before they could record and teach the language again, so many of the elders at SHIP had to re-learn the language they had heard in their childhoods. Is there a particular reason the consonant table revamp left out the epiglottals? His voice sounds more like a raven’s now: soft and hollow, but still commanding. Holding his fish like an edible knife, his hands show the gashes of chainsaws and fishing lines, scars from his life on Haida Gwaii. “See my knee?” he says, pointing to his right leg. “It only takes two people to save a language,” he insists. They were so smooth.” Today, the Joneses sway in their seats. This time, his papery vocal chords take a few sentences to vibrate to life. It can take over a decade for someone, even if they have grown up within the culture and heard the language spoken by their grandparents and elders, to finesse the nuances of the language. A half-hour late and leaning on walking canes, he squeezes a CD case in his left hand. They found Borserio, a white high school social studies teacher from the neighbouring town of Queen Charlotte. “We might as well do it with our languages since we’re going to be here anyway.”. When they walk into the room, they don’t really even have to say anything. Leading the charge was Niis Wes Ernie Wilson, a fluent elder, waving atop a fire truck with sirens blazing. The names are common knowledge for most of them, but if the people at SHIP don’t translate them now, no one will know how in 10 years’ time. Justin Trudeau hauled Indigenous issues to political prominence during the 2015 election when he made a campaign promise that a Liberal government would legislate to protect and help revitalize Indigenous languages, define Aboriginal rights in the Constitution and redesign child welfare legislation. t as in "team" word beginnings include: ta, taa, ti, tii, tuu. If you still want this, you can have it, you just have to give it to us again.’”. Beyond facilitating the school day at SHIP and organizing translation contracts, ferry rides, lunches and medical appointments for his students, Borserio has also prioritized mentoring young Haida adults to become teaching assistants at the school. The elders had driven the seven winding kilometres west of the longhouse in Skidegate to visit one of their own, Roy Jones Sr., who had been there for over a month, in a hospital room with a view of the fishing boats docked in Queen Charlotte’s harbour. In the woods as a logger, Williams spoke Haida with colleagues as a way to keep their plans for the day secret from their foreman. “You and Yang K’aalas can slow dance there. Tyler York, a Haida carver from Skidegate, played the film’s protagonist. Over 20 years, the disease cut the Haida down from nearly 10,000 to fewer than 900. They recognized that without action, future generations would not hear their own histories in their own language. Potlatches were banned in 1884 under the federal Indian Act. Indigenous people voted in record numbers in that election, applauding the apparent change in priorities from a federal party. Then-chief SGiidagids—meaning “child of chiton”—gave his name to an English trader, who used it as a toponym for the area. “There was a grand plan to involve industry and the nation and build a centre where any teacher could access any language,” Kelly said of the recommendations. Jones Sr.’s assertion assumes that a reader can speak the sounds cleanly to begin with. “Books and recordings can preserve languages, but only people and communities can keep them alive.”. [Photo courtesy of Niijang Xyaalas Productions © Isuma Distribution International]. [Photo © Jensen Edwards], You can almost feel the difference [in the tones],” says Joanne Yovanovich, the Haida language coordinator for the Haida Gwaii School District. But last spring the B.C. Spelling aside, “It’s way easier to read than English,” says Jones Sr. It also meant that it was duty to their nation and passion for their Haida identity that drove them, not necessarily the salary. The day before, the Monumental Pole in front of the Hospital in Queen Charlotte gleamed a fresh coppery orange, shining with the night’s frost in the morning sun, the open skies a relief after a week of behemoth winds and pelting rain. Kelly and Campbell took their initial immersion camp and expanded it into a full-year school program that would bring together fluent elders, former speakers looking to reclaim their language and new learners alike. “[The actors would be] so focused on, ‘God let me remember my lines, god let me remember my lines,’ [and] ‘let my pronunciation be right.’” There were even times when Haig-Brown would have to remind the actors, in English, of what they were expressing through their newly learned language. Between all three official Haida dialects, fewer than 30 total speakers remain, and most are over the age of 80. The film’s co-directors Haig-Brown and Edenshaw use the unpolished silences to draw a parallel story of the Haida Nation’s journey to reclaim their language and heal from the colonial precedent that led to its fragility. Critics to Harper’s decision say that his justification for cancelling the funding was in fact the very reason why the money would have worked well for individual communities in the first place, because each has its own set of priorities for language revitalization.
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