Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Languages in Canada"

Living Sky School Division, Métis Nation-Saskatchewan team up to offer program CBC Indigenous: Sixteen students entering the doors at St. Vital school in Battleford this fall will be part of a program aimed at expanding and strengthening Métis culture and the Michif language. The new Michif pre-kindergarten program is a collaboration between Living Sky School Division...

Representative says students have been asking to learn Indigenous languages CBC Indigenous: Ottawa’s largest school board says it’s searching for Algonquin and Inuktitut language specialists to make learning the languages more accessible for students. Jody Kohoko, the principal of First Nations, Métis and Inuit education at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), said the board...

APTN News: Emeral Pope’s life mission is to live her language. Pope is one of five students enrolled in a new full-time Kaska language program, Gūzā́gī ts’į̄́ʼ Netsédzedī́yaʼ, We are Waking up to Our Language. Its goal is ambitious: teach young learners the language so they can eventually pass it down themselves. “There’s so much need in...