bommelyn: my life work has been in our language. we speak the dee-ni' language, a tolowa dee-ni' language. we've been restoring our language and trying to revitalize the language to kp it in the present. we have a verb for musseling, for example, so when you collect mussels, you rock them loose. you pry them and rock them loose. you don't scuff them off the rock and take all generations. [speaks tolowa-dee-ni'] means to move around. it's a verb specifically for gathering mussels. you never take the largest of any species. you always leave it because they create the largest offspring, and you are very cautious of the young ones, the [speaks tolowa-dee-ni'] because they need to continue to grow. so you usually harvest the middle-aged things from the ocean. you're just taught to always respect the food because it's our sustenance. it's a way of life. you have a relationship with them that's very important. so it's a very, very different view of the world having that relationship. that's why the language, i think, is so important, as we