"One area of focus of Giselasu culture is the promotion and teaching of Sm̓algya̱x. The Gitselasu have formed a partnership group with the Kitsumkalum called the Kitselas-Kitsumkalum Language Authority. The role of the Language Authority is to promote the teaching of language. The value of understanding Sm'algyax for Tsimshian people is that a language serves to conceptualize ideas as well as experience. The more you can conceptualize the world from one's own culture the better one can understand that world view."1
