Mu I am grateful to the wiseones who help to generate the Kwak ala for newsletters. Sara Child

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come let s all speak our language

The meeting at Sacred Wolf on December 2nd

was wonderful. We would like to extend our

gratitude to Sacred Wolf Friendship Centre and staff for their support for our language

meeting and helping us to find a space where our North Island communities can meet and

greet and put our heads together about language renewal.

Our group decided that we need to:

Building Awareness about the state of our language

Promote among adults, youth and community

Embracing and honoring dialects

Re-Connect our communities through language

Build and share resources

We’ve decided:

Coming in January

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@ SWFC

stay tuned and look for us on Facebook

Wi a nalax:

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s) for someone to help you

decipher what it says and perhaps reword it should your Elder/s say this differently or speak a different dialect.