ABSTRACT
The voice of the land is in our language. (National First Nations Elders/Language Gathering, Mi’gmaq Nation, Canada) Nothing Nothing stays longer in our souls than the language we inherit It liberates our thoughts unfolds our mind and softens our life. (Paulus Utsi (born 1918), 1996: 111, translated by Roland Thorstensson) Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling, 1923)
