Exploring Theme: "Commitments to Indigenous Languages"

NationTalk: YELLOWKNIFE – The Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories have signed a new Canada-Northwest Territories Agreement on Indigenous Languages from 2024-25 to 2026-27. Under the new agreement, $5.9 million will be invested per fiscal year, for a total of $17.7 million over three years. The funding is provided to Indigenous...

Brandon’s Eagle Healing Lodge strengthens Dakota, Cree, Anishinaabemowin and Michif speakers at 3-day camp  CBC Indigenous: Nestled in a ceremony site east of Southwestern Manitoba’s biggest city, a group of language keepers is working to strengthen and grow fluent Dakota, Cree, Anishinaabemowin and Michif speakers. They’re part of the Brandon Friendship Centre’s Eagle Healing Lodge’s...

All are welcome to attend the four day program of teachings and games this week No English allowed. Anishnaabemowin immersion camp helps preserve the language: 1 day ago, Duration 0:53 Wikwemkoong First Nation held its first Anishnaabemowin language immersion camp this week. Fluent speakers and learners of all ages played games to help learn the language....

The NDP MP speaks Anishininiimowin in the Ontario Legislature. APTN News: New Democrat Sol Mamakwa spoke for 10 minutes in Anishininiimowin, or Oji-Cree in the Ontario legislature on Tuesday marking the first time anyone has spoken a language other than English or French. It was also the first time in history the Ontario legislature interpreted and transcribed any other language...

NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa to ask question in Anishininiimowin on Tuesday CBC News: The Canadian Press – Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario’s legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury. On Tuesday, Mamakwa, the...