Keep Talking | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture | dG1fTlZBUDVYVDM0QTQ

Transcript

00:00This is Alaska, so you see it.

00:08Okay, who wants to be the tugukak?

00:11Whoo!

00:13Una tugukak, akumi!

00:16Okay, I teach a group of young learners.

00:21That's the right way, I think,

00:23is if you trick someone into thinking

00:26that they're just having fun.

00:30If I was still living like I did, I wouldn't be here.

00:35We've all come out of brushes with disaster.

00:40When I went to school,

00:43they didn't allow us to speak our language.

00:46They used to put their hand like that and they'd strap us.

00:50We used to be a lot of us before.

00:54At this point, we've got 41 speakers total.

01:00Babushka Sadie.

01:03Sadie's really shy.

01:06You know how like the elders were abused when they spoke?

01:10It still goes on for some people, and I'm one of them.

01:14I'm glad I'm learning.

01:16I am. I am.

01:18I am.

01:21They start wanting to teach our language.

01:24Wow, wow, wow!

01:27There's only a few of us who could do it.

01:31I want to do this.

01:33Between her and I, we're not giving up.