It’s like describing a color to a blind person.
Sondra Segundo struggled to say how the almost extinct Haida language is more colorful than English. More descriptive.
But words failed her.

It’s a difficult language to learn. Segundo, a 46-year-old middle school teacher, and her aunt Jeane Jimenez, 66, can carry on only basic-level conversations in the language.
Both women came from Seattle earlier this week to participate in a two-day program on Native cultures…
