In this talk, Professor X'unei Lance Twitchell (University of Alaska Southeast) shares his experiences as a language speaker, teacher, and activist. 

X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell (Lingít, Haida, Yupʼik, Sami) is a Professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast, and lives in Juneau with his wife and bilingual children. He speaks and studies the Lingít language, and advocates for Indigenous language reclamation through teaching, program development, legislative changes, and healing. Twitchell is an author of poems, stories, and screenplays, and is a filmmaker, musician, and Northwest Coast Artist. Twitchell is an Emmy Award-winning screenwriter who wrote on the PBS show Molly of Denali. His first book of poetry, G̱agaan X̱ʼusyee / Below the Foot of the Sun, is available from the University of Alaska Press and the University Press of Colorado.