On this day we Understanding Dibaasdendiziwin also pause to honour the strength and endurance of our rough my personal journey to reclaim language keepers who overcame fear, trauma, and shame Anishinaabemowin, I gained a profound understanding of inicted by government and church assimilation strategies why Indigenous languages matter. [...] the conversation for National Indigenous Languages Day, I want to demonstrate how English is inadequate for We take this time to thank language teachers translating cultural knowledge and bring understanding to two questions often raised but rarely discussed: 1) How and students for their commitment and do Indigenous languages hold culture, knowledge, and endeavors to keep our languages from being. [...] Colonized thinking and pop culture shorten words and phrases to save time and In contrast to the English translation, dibaasdendiziwin take up less space, like “thanks” for “thank you” or “legit” actually instructs us to think about and process a certain for “legitimate.” We have lost much of our Indigenous condition or situation using our range of personal languages as it is, and when we shorten. [...] In symbolically spanning from the top of our being, (our head essence, we are agreeing that our languages don’t matter by which includes our thoughts, mind, and spirit), all the demonstrating ourselves that they are not worth the time way down to the level of earth and the experience we have or space it takes to use the whole word in all its meaning. [...] Dibaasdendiziwin e reality of language revitalization is that, yes, words instructs us to consider this certain condition or situation change and evolve through time and use, but there is a limit in the moment from our heart, and to weigh it against the to how much we can bend them to our will.
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