Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for that question, Lori. That's a really important one.
When we design and deliver language programs to children in the schools and in the communities—especially in the communities—when it's delivered in a way that's respectful to and full of integrity for the indigenous world and people are learning, in that way, healing takes place. We don't have to separate it. That's what takes place.
I really appreciate your question, because we have many people who are adults, particularly, who are relearning their languages or who are learning their languages, and it's a painful process. In those cases, we need to be able to deliver a program that acknowledges and recognizes that. It's healing that has to take place, not just with an individual but with a family and a community.
I did programs, for example, for people whom we call “silent speakers”. These are usually adults who speak the language and who learned their language as children, but because of their school experiences and other experiences, stopped using their language. We need to create programs and strategies that work with these people, because it's a very painful process to regenerate that language, and we need to be able to focus on that. We're not. We're not usually delivering programs for that population, and that's a huge population in our communities that we're not looking at.
Oftentimes, in our indigenous world, we don't separate the institutions, for example, of learning and health, but in the western world, that's what we do. Again, it's looking at all of the infrastructure that is in place and seeing the kinds of changes that need to be made to support the work that we need to do to reclaim, recover, revitalize and sustain our languages.
Thank you.