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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...
June 21, 2023
Six Nations Polytechnic celebrates largest Indigenous languages graduating class
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....