Wyatt Moulton, 17, learned to speak Wolastoqey from his mother and grandparents. Their family is a rarity as Wyatt is one of very few young people in his community of Neqotkuk who can speak the language. He tells his peers, "Your ancestors hear you and they love hearing you. So speak your language."

After the slaughter at the Battle of the Crater, fought in Virginia 155 years ago today, two officers one Union and the other Confederate struck up an unusual friendship that reverberates in New Brunswick even now through a gold-topped ebony cane.

In New Brunswick, the languages of the Wabanaki people Passamaquoddy, Mi'kmaq and Wolastaquey are endangered, but a few fluent speakers and some students are trying to breathe life back into them.