This article deals with the author's and her family's loss of the Māori language in New Zealand/Aotearoa and their efforts to invert this decline over divers generations. It covers a description of various policy reforms and events in Aotearoa/New Zealand's history and of the destructive influence of colonisation on the Māori language. The article also introduces the mobilisation of Māori families and communities to fix their own strategies and initiatives to stop further language decline and to invert language loss. It is argued that no language should be permitted to die, as it contains the DNA of people's cultural identity.