Del Lessin talks with us about restoring language and culture decades after the loss of their last language speaker.

We often return to the flood narrative in thinking about how we are rebuilding after the apocalypse of colonization, but the Catawba people of South Carolina are doing this in an extraordinary way. Del's work on and with the Catawba nation involves language, culture, and agriculture and the ways in which these things are interconnected.

You can learn more about Del here: https://delesslin-portfolio.herokuapp.com/