‘I can still hear their words’: the fight to save the Híɫzaqv language

In what is now western Canada, younger generations of the Indigenous Heiltsuk Nation are using social media to revive this ‘deeply relational’ language

Centuries ago, the music of the Híɫzaqv language echoed across a territory of deep fjords, rugged islands, windswept beaches and thick forests.

And then, for more than a century, the lands now in the western reaches of Canada fell quiet.

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