For at least four thousand years, Keres has been passed down between generations. It is a language of love, compassion, and respect. Keres is meant to be shared with all the generations, and we speak it to the land and to all beings. Embedded in our language are time-tested Indigenous Knowledge Systems; instructive, nurturing approaches that show us the way to raise children, care for the land, pathways for settling disputes, and upholding our kinship system.

In the blessing of becoming a mother, I witnessed all of the knowledge that the grandmas, aunties, grandpas, uncles carried with them because of them knowing our language, too. When my grandmother spoke to Akuritz in Keres for the first time, there was nothing more that I wanted than for her to speak Keres someday.