<div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">Reviving a butterfly in the forest</font></b><p class="" style="border:none;padding:0px;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(167,167,167);font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt;background-color:white">
Posted 08/16/2013</p><p class="" style="border:none;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(119,119,119);font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt;background-color:white">by - <a href="mailto:editor@thecordovatimes.com" style="border:none;padding:0px;margin:0px;font-family:inherit;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,87,103)">Jennifer Gibbins</a></p>
<br>Imagine looking out across the sky and seeing endless swarms of gorgeous butterflies, thick as falling snow. Each delicately attuned to the woods or fields or marshes of its short life.<br><br>Today, swarms of butterflies thick as snow are rare. In addition to their decline in numbers around the world, diversity among their species is plummeting. It may seem inconsequential, but beyond being part of the beauty and identity of a particular landscape, butterflies are tiny indicators of the health of everything around them, from climate to insects to mammals, even people.<br>
<br>This is the image in my mind when talking this past weekend with Dr. Michael Krauss, former president of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas and Director of Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Fairbanks.<br>
<br>Krauss, age 79, was in Cordova for the first time in about twenty years for the third annual Eyak Language Workshop attended by Eyak descendants from Cordova and those now living throughout Alaska and the lower 48 as part of an effort to restore Eyak to a living language.<br>
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