The human race is a collection of a wide variety of cultures, languages, traditions, and ethnicities. There are people that seek to preserve and save these traits of society. I believe this is a positive thing for the world and people to invest in.

“I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly. Because when an elder dies a library is burned, and throughout the world, libraries are ablaze.” (Elizabeth Lindsey)

“They have been compared to astronauts -- these elder navigators who sail vast open oceans in double-hulled canoes thousands of miles from a small island... This is part of our collective narrative. It's humanity's DNA. We cannot afford to lose it.” (Elizabeth Lindsey)