Exploring Theme: "Language and Treaty Rights"

Wolastoqey leaders have long called for the New Brunswick river to be renamed Wolastoq CBC News: The chief of Sitansisk, or St. Mary’s First Nation, says Manju Varma’s recommendation to rename a historic New Brunswick river the Wolastoq Saint John is “tone deaf.”    Varma, New Brunswick’s commissioner of systemic racism, released her report Friday, and the name change was one...

New podcast aims to revitalize Anishinaabemowin, by, and for, second-language learners ‘‘ The way our society is set up goes hand-in-hand with colonization. MSKWAANKWAD RICE CO-HOST OF ‘THE LANGUAGE’ PODCAST Toronto Star: When Mskwaankwad Rice began his journey to learn Anishinaabemowin 10 years ago, he didn’t know where to start — it wasn’t like he...