Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Languages in Canada"

Languages commissioner, MLAs discuss the state of Inuktut in Nunavut CBC Indigenous: Nearly every concern received by the Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut (OLC) since April 1, 2021 were related to Inuktut. That’s according to the OLC’s consolidated annual reports for the last three fiscal years, which showed a combined 95.3 per cent of...

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...

‘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...

‘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...

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...

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...