Languages evolve over time, but the 80-100 “sleeping” (endangered) California Indian languages have little hope of surviving the dominance of English. A recent “Breath of Life” conference at UC Berkeley brought together speakers and students who want to preserve Native American languages. Parents want to pass this vanishing culture down to their children, the languages lost starting with the Spanish missionaries. Their tools to keep the words alive are old and new: songs, board games, cartoons, and YouTube.