Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 13

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May 29, 2024


Sol Mamakwa breaks a language barrier in Ontario

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...

May 26, 2024


‘Language is identity’: First Nation legislator to make history at Ontario legislature

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...

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