Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

I'm Maria Margaronis, and this is our celebration of Community Radio for World Radio Day.

Y'a, annau's time when Napa, on the Nukak Radio's, 91.m.

Why, I am your weatherman today?

This evening, we'll be skimmas with 60% chant of al-Akh,

becoming skimmas before the enoch and a low of six for the nighttime forecast.

Slow down with us and tune in to a tiny station broadcasting from a trailer by the wide Belakula River on Canada's Pacific coast.

Anouss Seine Mnup, you're listening to 91.1 FM Nakhalk Radio, broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters.

Dada is the station manager. I'm here.M. Nchalk Radio, broadcast in the laws of the lands and waters. Dada is the station manager.

I'm here at the river. It's provided nourishment to our people.

And it's special to me for the relationship that I had growing up with my grandfather, my papa.

When I was young, he thought I was ready to go fishing,

and he would row with the oars down the river,

and I would cast the nets.

And he shared with me this phrase,

Ch'am K'em kait, means cast the net.

Chachemka'i'i'i.

The new health people have lived for thousands of years among the snowy peaks and deep forests of the Belakula Valley. Almost wiped out by smallpox brought by settlers in the 19th century.

They've survived repeated attempts to erase their culture.

The whole Nukhalt nation numbers just two or three thousand people.

We really wanted to figure out how we could help save the New Hulk language

because we were getting down to very, very few speakers.

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