The Canadian courts have also found that the federal government has a fiduciary obligation to protect these rights. The fact that Aboriginal languages of Canada are a unique part of Canadian heritage, and are not spoken anywhere else in the world, is often mentioned as something that makes the languages worthy of protection and revitalization. Aboriginal elders who speak their languages, but also younger people who mourn their loss, point to the connection of Aboriginal languages with culture, and with one's roots and identity. The Aboriginal Languages were given by the Creator as an integral part of life. Embodied in Aboriginal languages is our unique relationship to the Creator, our attitudes, beliefs, values, and the fundamental notion of what is truth.
Aboriginal language is an asset to one's own education, formal and informal.
Language is the principal means by which culture is accumulated, shared and transmitted from generation to generation. The key to identity and retention of culture is one's ancestral language. This further means that effective language mobilization programs at the community level must tie a language revival program to the wider process of strengthening the community. They must be linked to the improvement or restoration of spiritual, mental, physical and emotional wholeness of the community and its members. Accepting and understanding the connection between language and cultural wellbeing is a first major step towards revitalizing a language.