We have an oral history. That's how our knowledge has been transferred intergenerationally for 700 generations for the Heiltsuk people.
We are at risk of losing our language, but our young people are stepping up and they're taking responsibility to learn the language. As I said earlier, that's where the knowledge is, because there are certain things you could say in our language that you can't say in English or in French.
We are working to decolonize. First nations people have been the most marginalized people in Canada because of the desire to have access to our resources. On the coast, it's been fish, salmon, timber. However, our people never gave up on our commitment to our place and our values and our system, even though we've dealt with the forces of colonization.
If you don't mind, I'm going to pass it over to Bev, because I've more or less monopolized the comments.