Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying.
European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an environment of horror and abuse, she says.That's why she has taken to the internet to teach Inuktitut, one of the dialects spoken by the Inuit, to her people and anyone else who wants to learn. She believes it is vital to her culture's survival."Asking why this is important is just like asking why water is important.
"I always felt like there was a big part of me missing and I realized to think through my Indigeneity, I needed to be able to comprehend the way Inuit think," Kilabuk, 32, told CNN."To do that, I needed to learn our language; that's how you see the world and explain yourself, and not having that made me feel like I wasn't part of my community."Kilabuk said she felt overwhelmed with joy when she stumbled across an online ad for Coley-Sudlovenick's language course.
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