The Race To Save The Haida Language

SKIDEGATE, QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS - FEBRUARY 19: Some of the Haida Nation's 65 language speakers in Skidegate, one of two Haida communities in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), the Canadian archipelago south of Alaska, February 19, 2005. It is estimated that the Haida Nation has less than 65 people who speak the Haida language, and that the average age is 70 to 80. Some of the Haida elders, gather daily in the Skidegate Haida Language House, a longhouse dedicated to audio recording the language. This is the elder's attempt to salvage the rapidly fading language. From left to right, Kevin Borserio, Diane Brown, John Williams, Virginia Wilson, Betty Richardson, Norman Price, James Young. (Photo by Farah Nosh/Getty Images)