A Remarkable Legacy: Saanich
(2001, 25 min.) CANADA
Director: Paul M. Rickard (Cree)
Finding My Talk series
Produced in association with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

Dave Elliott, a Saanich fisherman in British Columbia almost single-handedly resurrected the dying Sencofen language of his people by creating an alphabet system, recording elders, and developing a language curriculum for local schools.

Image credit: Paul Rickard at the 2003 Native American Film and Video Festival selector's meeting - Photograph by Amalia Cordova, NMAI