Lucy was here earlier in Waimea, but we're going to talk to her in her current home in Portland.

In Ireland, I have an English language name, Lucy Cotter.

When my parents went to name me, my father wanted to give me an Irish language first name and my mother wanted to give me an English language first name.

My father is a Gaelic language teacher.

And my mother was like, no, I want my children to have an easy name that people around the world can pronounce.

And I think that already shows you something about the mindset of different kind of, you know, thinking within the culture and also the assumption that I would emigrate because most Irish, a lot of Irish young people do.

That's just kind of part of our history and part of who we are.

What relationship do you see between revitalizing indigenous languages and environmental justice?