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Similar to the rest of the Yuman languages, the Kumiai-tipeey language has attracted attention in recent years due to its critical state of displacement. This fact is in a context sustained by an ideology of rescue, from which the speakers of native languages appear as passive subjects who have allowed their linguistic heritage to die, and where the figure of the researcher-data collector is divided from the social dimension. Based on work experience in the Kumiai community of San José de la Zorra, in Baja California, Mexico, this paper discusses the complex relationship that is established between the researcher and the community as both an environment of grievance and an exercise of the linguistic rights, which are crystallized in the creation of the book Kanap Jatpa Jmok (Three stories of a coyote). The material for the said book was possible only thanks to the tireless individual agency of those community members who continue to create spaces for their language, along with the community participation, which has resulted in the book incorporating and embodying their requests and perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]