Yesterday, I lunched with a friend of mine who has been working on maintaining her indigenous language at least since the 1980's. She started community classes without funding and continued working until there were classes in the local schools, sometimes having to teach those herself. Although she has retired, she does with another community. Despite all her accomplishments, perhaps what she values most is that her grandchildren are now speaking their heritage language with her and other adults in the community. She is thrilled, of course, because there was some delay in the acquisition of that language, but it has finally broken through.