An excellent addition for those who enjoy the positivity of Alanis Obomsawin’s Our People Will Be Healed, this nuts-and-bolts doc looks at the reclamation of Indigenous languages in coastal Alaska.

Director Karen Lynn Weinberg talks to scholars, students, artists, and elders in still-active fishing communities about their once-fading cultures, and learns some surprising things. These include the positive influence, dating back to the 19th century, of Russian Orthodoxy, whose priests learned Aleut instead of forcing the locals to speak their language. Memorably, one old-timer recalls, “Church is where we thought about fishing, and the boat is where we thought about God.”