The Kwakwaka’wakw community and the team at the U’Mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay have done a remarkable job over recent years in successfully repatriating most of the potlatch masks and other regalia stolen from the community a hundred years ago. They have worked tirelessly, determined to protect their culture and identity against extraordinary odds pitted against them through the centuries. We have known the U’Mista team for many years. When we met with them in the Spring of 2024, they said that their most urgent need was to protect their traditional language of Kwakwala. We have therefore partnered with them and the Ni’noxsola council of remaining Kwakwala speakers to create a recording studio pod, complete with all the technology that the language team need to complete a Kwakwala dictionary and to record and teach the language. The studio opened this Spring.