Current Problems: Language and Culture (13-17)

Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Languages in Canada"

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February 6, 2024


Funding loss threatens Indigenous language program in Victoria

In 2023, Victoria Native Friendship Centre received $266,500 in federal funding to offer classes in seven Indigenous languages NationTalk: Staff at the Victoria Native Friendship Centre has been left scrambling after losing the main source of funding for a program that teaches multiple Indigenous languages, says the centre’s executive director. The centre’s Urban Indigenous Language...

December 4, 2023


Cornwallis name gone from Lunenburg street, but new name draws criticism

‘Stop erasing us from history,’ says Patricia Doyle-Bedwell CBC Indigenous: The renaming of Cornwallis Street in Lunenburg, N.S., to Queen Street misses the mark, critics say. The town decided to go with Queen following the results of a public survey, but the whole point of replacing the name in the first place was to reflect...

November 9, 2023


Indigenous language advocates ask if universities are doing enough for language revitalization

‘I want the heart of our being, our language, to stay beating in our homes and communities’ CBC Indigenous: Indigenous language advocates are asking if universities are doing enough to support language revitalization. During a talk at Carleton University in Ottawa last month, Owennatekha Maracle, co-founder of Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa, a Kanien’kéha (Mohawk language) immersion program...

October 25, 2023


Cree School Board takes aim at language loss

Mentorship initiative just part of larger effort to save a language at risk NationTalk: CBC News – It was a wake-up call to many about the health of the Cree language. Grade 2 students in northern Quebec were being assessed on their Cree language skills as part of a larger language assessment currently ongoing for the...

August 9, 2023


It’s really shameful’: N.B.’s racist place names remain, despite years of calls for change

Province says it’s prioritized changing derogatory place names, but has budgeted less than $8,000 for it  CBC News: When elders from Chief Allan Polchies’s community see place names with derogatory language, it’s triggering for them, he says. At least seven locations across the province bear the name of a racist and misogynistic term used against Indigenous women...

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