In our community, we have grandmothers. I know that people have a tendency to call them “elders”, but they really love to be called “grandmothers”, and they're the grandmothers who collectively work together.
When they come together in circle, they bring the young people with them and they pass on the tradition, knowledge and language of who we are. It's an important part of reconnecting people who are sometimes called “latchkey children”, who have been disconnected due to urban issues or due to the fact that we don't have the same kind of communities we used to have. We try to bring them back together, and the grandmothers work with them, counsel them and advise them.