Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I want to talk about a little project that shows what a small group of people with a bit of creativity, a lot of commitment, a lot of determination and lot of volunteer time can achieve. Last winter, Mr. Speaker, I was invited by Mary Rose Sundberg to come and see her centre that she was working on. Mary Rose is a long-time advocate of aboriginal languages. I went down and I was surprised to see her in a little log cabin no more than about 10 by 12 feet in size, a fire going and the smallest oil space heater I've ever seen, sweeping out the little cabin, putting together some used furniture, and setting up some computers that had been donated from Air Tindi and possibly from others. It was the beginning of the Dettah language centre, and Dettah and N'dilo have long depended on the language centre out of Rae-Edzo.

In this little building, Mary Rose, along with a group of students and a group of other people, have worked hard in training people in the language, both Dogrib and Chipewyan, in preparing reading material for young children, and more than anything else, preparing a lot of good teaching aids that go with the books. So they develop books with culturally-relevant characters in them and prepare little aids that young children can use as they learn how to read.

I've noticed the last time I was there that they've built little teepees that children can use for reading centres, and those are to be given to the other schools in Yellowknife and possibly in other areas. But this is just such a good example of what people can do if they choose to take it under their control and do it.

I was also pleased last week to go to the centre and see that they had prepared a biography on one of the elders - Michel Paper who I've mentioned before in this House. It's a biography of his life.

It's a tremendous little centre, operating without much of a budget with money they can pull together here and there, but I think a very fine example of what can be done.

Mr. Speaker, in the gallery today we have Mary Rose Sundberg who has been the main drive on this one. We have Berna Martin who has worked along with her, and Betty Harnum. But I think these people are a great example of how little communities can take things in their own hands and achieve a lot on behalf of their people, and particularly the elders and young people. Thank you.

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