Language stabilization efforts must proceed in culturally appropriate ways. New effective strategies for intergenerational language transmission can be implemented at various levels, from individual to tribal. Hypercritical native speakers tend to discourage the efforts of less fluent learners. Document successful efforts. Some native languages may be less severely endangered than others, but all of them are threatened as the time honored ways of passing them on to the next generation are rapidly disappearing.
Native languages are inseparable from cultural identity and spirituality.
Since every community is different, language stabilization strategies will also differ from one place to another, if they are to be consistent with local customs. The concepts of language, identity, culture, and spirituality are highly complex, and some confusion is inevitable now that the schools are involved in the teaching of native language and literacy. One can and should ask whose responsibility and privilege it is to teach a native language, but the answer is unclear and varies from one context to another. Within each community, native language transmission can occur at different levels. At the individual level, a fluent speaker can take the initiative to help less fluent ones improve their proficiency.