Restore
Your ability to return to a previous version of yourself — recovering lessons, habits, or strengths you once had.
The Indigenous Woman and Her Lost Language
Restore reflects the Indigenous woman's ability to recover her sense of self-worth and dignity that had been damaged by the residential school trauma. By recognizing that forgetting her language and not fighting back were survival responses rather than personal failures, she could restore her understanding of herself as someone who had wisdom and strength, even as a five-year-old child facing impossible circumstances.