Dr. Dorothy Kennedy and Randy Bouchard are the founders of the BC Indian Language Project, dedicated to the documentation and preservation of BC’s First Nations languages, cultures and histories. Kennedy and Bouchard’s comprehensive study of the Native people of the Desolation Sound area, Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands, was published in 1983. They are also co-editors of Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America, published in 2002. The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack, published in February 2010, is Kennedy and Bouchard’s tribute to one of their First Nations collaborators.