Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Languages in Canada"

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...

‘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...