 My name is Sarah Johnson. I'm from Weagumau Lake First Nation, also known as North Caribou Lake First Nation. I'm a Native language perspectives lead for Kiwetna Kokumahkana Board of Education. This is my second year working for them. I met her Native language teachers in the five communities. Most of my work involves projects. This past year's project is the language app. We started it last October and it became available this November. It has been a long, took time, took a lot of time, patients, a lot of discussion and building this project. This involved the work of my Native language teachers from each of the five communities Kiwetwan, North Spirit Lake, Deer Lake, Poplar Hill. Kiwetwan, Deer Lake, North Spirit are Ojibwe communities. Poplar Hill is Ojibwe community and Fort Severn is the Cree community. The language app is all three different apps and all those three language apps. We had 500 words to work with, so the initial part of the project was bringing the teachers together, elders, parents, to discuss the project. Then they went back to their communities and worked on it, translating it mostly, interpreting from English to their language. That took some time because some of the challenges we faced was finding words for some terms. They would finish a couple of pages. Each time they did a couple of pages, they would send it to me. Then I typed all the terms in the syllabics and then I sent them back. Those are always sending translations like translated words back and forth, so that we, up until I think the last week of the launch, we know actually two weeks before the launch, I mean before we made it public, it took like the last two weeks to still edit the syllabics, so it's correct. We did a photo shoot of the app here in Sulakaut. It took one week to take photos of the app. We included some children, my native language teachers, daughter and granddaughter, and recording. That was another challenge as recording because you get intimidated when it's time to record. So we worked as a group and so we did like one day just Ojibwe people and another day Ojibwe people and another day the Kree people. So it was, you know, we had to get it right. So once we were done with recording, we review it, we listen. We listen to it, we look at the words, we display the words on the screen and we listen to the sound of what was recorded and we are making changes as we're going. So that's one of the, you know, work that was involved. So the target is for students. We want to use it for student use in the classroom, classrooms. But as it is going now, it's for anyone. Anyone from, you know, preschooler can use it to adults. Because we have done, it's in public now. We, that was our goal was to make it public to, because we are sharing people, we want to reach to, you know, everyone that can take something from the language up and if they can learn one word, that's a bonus. One word a day. The purpose of this app is to, you know, bringing back the language and maintaining to maintain what we have and also to awaken the inner spirit. Because most of us, the younger generation are not speaking the language and it's in there, it's in there, it's in them, it's in their being and we want, I would like them to, you know, wake up the inner spirit. The focus we had and, you know, what this program was, the project was to focus on the 21st century learner, because we are in the 21st century. And most people are using technology now. They are using it constantly. They cannot go without it, right? So this is one way to bring the language. It's in their hands, right? It's in their hands. So it's there, it's in their, you know, pockets. So they can easily, if they have that app in their, you know, on their phone, for example, or, you know, on their iPads, you know, it's there. They can look it up, they can scroll it, you know. So I've been scrolled and learned. Indigenous education is knowing who you are. It depends, you know, knowing who you are, knowing your place where you stand on, to acknowledge the land where you are. If you are working there, going to school, you know, it's good to acknowledge the place where you are and recognizing the people that have lived there before us. That's Indigenous education for me. And being able to say your name in the language where you come from. You can say, when you see someone, when you see someone in passing, or when you're introducing yourself, you can say, So hearing that voice sound of the language, it gives, you know, it's a gift, you know, it's a gift of language. I spent many years at the university. I love going into a Patterson building. I would like to see more Indigenous scholars at the university. I would like to see that, you know, especially when you're teaching about Indigenous education, I think it's important that we have, not only an Indigenous education, this applies to other fields and nursing programs as well. Forestry, we know a lot of plants, trees, so not everything is learned by textbook. So, you know, if you look around, you know, outside, there's lots of teachings there. There's lots of teachings there. Just there waiting to be, you know, waiting to be learned.