Indigenous languages around the world are more than communication systems; they carry cultural identity, ecological knowledge, and unique ways of relating to the world (Lijphart, 1979; Kimmerer, 2014). Many encode perspectives on nature that have developed through generations of lived experience and continue to shape how communities interact with

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"The Eyak word for rain means 'something is happening.'"

This quote comes a book by Eva Saulitis called "Into Great Silence." It's near the end of the book, where she talks about the Eyak people of the coastal rainforest of Alaska.

The Eyak are a distinct cultural group, separate from the Tlingit, that migrated thousands of years ago from the

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