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...

CBC News: More than a dozen Mohawk and Cayuga language graduates walked across Six Nations Polytechnic’s stage recently, marking the largest class to complete the bachelor’s degree since the program began.  Some graduates also became the school’s first to earn their bachelor of arts with honours, studying in the Ogwehoweh languages program for an additional year....

February 21, 2023: On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, the Zoryan Institute is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its upcoming special issue of Genocide Studies International, The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages.  “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Language is a core...