Complex sentence: Although contemporary practice was for First Nations youth to attend a residential school, Seaweed was not sent to boarding school, instead raised to speak the traditional Kwak’wala language, which he maintained during his lifetime.
Split into simpler sentences: Although contemporary practice was for First Nations youth to attend a residential school, Seaweed was not sent to boarding school. Instead he was raised to speak the traditional Kwak’wala language, which he maintained during his lifetime.