"This project continues to enrich and strengthen our Tribe. It also is vital in healing intergenerational trauma. Three Tribal Elders accompanied our dancers when they performed at this year’s Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage. One of the Elders told her niece, the project director, that she wished her own grandmother was alive to see the performance. The Elder when on to explain that her grandmother had been jailed for speaking Dena’ina in the 1930’s. Now 70 years later, our language was celebrated, young people were singing and dancing in Dena’ina, new songs developed. Yaghali du, it is good"