When I was in my undergraduate program, my friend Chad Uran and I talked about how we were going to change the world. The other day, I saw quotes he posted online from a text called Defying Maliseet Language Death, which was written by Maliseet tribal member Bernard C. Perley. The first one read, “I argue that if we change the terms of imminent language death to language suicide, then we acknowledge our own complicity in the erasure of the Maliseet language from our lives. This is important because it grants the community members the opportunity for linguistic self-determination” (122).
